marc@aplpy.jhuapl.edu (Marcus Gates) (07/08/88)
A recent edition of BYTE magazine reviewed hard disks - one of which was the Seagate ST251-1 (40Mb, 28ms) half-height drive which could be easily dropped into my 7300. The article listed the price as $370 but didn't say where to go to get that price. All of the adds in the magazine listed prices of $470 or more. Has anyone out there found this disk anywhere for a price near $370? I have seen the ST251 for the lower price but that is slower and the article did specifically name the ST251-1. Help!!, my 20Mb disk is nearly full and I could really use the extra space. marc gates johns hopkins applied physics lab, laurel, md UUCP: ...bpa!cp1!aplcen!aplvax!marc Internet: marc@aplpy.jhuapl.edu
kls@ditka.UUCP (Karl Swartz) (07/09/88)
In article <1084@aplcomm.UUCP> marc@aplpy.jhuapl.edu (Marcus Gates) writes: > A recent edition of BYTE magazine reviewed hard disks - one of which was >the Seagate ST251-1 (40Mb, 28ms) half-height drive which could be easily >dropped into my 7300. > ... Has anyone out there found this disk anywhere for a price near $370? I poked around and finally found some cheap ones advertised in the back of PC Week. Best price of the batch was $429, though several were within a few bucks of that. That's not quite the $370 that Byte quotes, but it is a tad better than what you've found. BTW, I think the place mine came from was Atronic or something like that in City of Industry, CA. Never heard of 'em before; they were just the cheapest I found. They shipped the disk in a reasonable time. Other than that, I know nothing about them. -- Karl Swartz |UUCP {emoryu1,pacbell,decvax!formtek}!ditka!kls 1-412/937-4930 office | {pitt,psuvax1}!idis!formtek!ditka!kls |BIX kswartz "I never let my schooling get in the way of my education." (Twain)