elliot@alfred.UUCP (Elliot Dierksen) (12/13/89)
Well, it's now a week after installing the Atasi 3085 I got from Main Source Electronics and everything is going just fine. There were 2 very minor difficulties in the upgrade: 1) I needed to leave the piece of cardboard from my old drive underneath the new drive. At one point, something must have caused a temporary (but non-damaging) short. During this time, computer would do nothing at all. 2) This drive has what seems to be a decent shock mounting. There are posts going up from each corner which are attached to the drive itself by screws with big rubber washers (for padding I suppose). It went O.K., but these posts made it a very snug fit getting the 3B1 case over top of the drive. Closing that point, The drive seems to be good and works just fine with a Unix-PC and for $425 it was a heck of a deal. (Standard disclaimer: I have no connection with Main Source other than as a satisfied customer) Also just finished mangling... I mean modifying my 512K RAM card as per the instructions for John Milton in HwNote06 (Thanx John!!). That was also fairly uneventful. Still a bit of a novice with an iron (soldering), I didn't hit me immediately that the solder needed to be removed on the bottom of the board. Once my brain returned to earth, everything else went fine. Those pins are a real bear to get out of those sockets!!! I hope my experiences will help someone else avoid some difficulty down the road somewhere... EBD -- Elliot Dierksen Home: {peora,ucf-cs,uunet}!tarpit!alfred!elliot Work: {att,codas}!candi!ralph!ebd "What's another word for Thesaurus??" -- Steven Wright