pg0p+@andrew.cmu.edu (Peter Cranston Green) (01/18/90)
People, Thought this might be interesting to any of you looking for a hard drive. Over the summer I was considering getting a Mac II and/or an Amiga. I ended up getting the Amiga with a bunch of peripherals. Two of which were a Microtech R45 for the Mac and a C-ltd. SCSI Interface. Well, it works! I can attach the drive to Amiga, pop in an Amiga-formatted platter, and bang! Then, if I want to use Pagemaker to work on my resume, I just unplug the drive, run over to a public cluster (CMU has a bunch of them), plug in the drive and put in my Mac-formatted platter. Presto. Nothing great really, but it was cheap, too. The drive + 1 platter was $850. Each extra 45M platter is $85. And the SCSI Interface couldn't have been more than $200, though I don't remember. Unlimited megs, Amiga and Mac compatibility. A no lose scenario. It even comes with a 2-year warranty. Microtech and C-Ltd were friendly, courteous and pretty smart, too. Peter C. Green pg0p@andrew.cmu.edu