ssm5y@uvaee.ee.virginia.EDU (Shankha S. Mitra) (02/09/89)
I am thinking on buying a Mac, probably an SE w/ a 20meg hard. I used to use Macs quite a lot a few yrs ago, and didn't use them much for a while. I need one now, but I have kind of lost touch as to what has happened in the Mac line so far. Can some kind and generous soul give me some advice as to what the differences are between the Macs (not Mac II as it is out of my meagre funds) and any other related comments. Please send me e-mail only as I don't read this newsgroup regularly. Thank you very, very much. --- Shankha Mitra (ssm5y@virginia.edu)
Jp@cup.portal.com (Jim Y Pelkey) (02/19/89)
What should do is buy the Macintosh SE with 2 floppies drive. Then, pick-up a third party hard disk from say CMS or Crate Technology ( that's an internal HD). These companies make rear-mount internal HD's which let you use two floppies. Yes, I know people say you don't need two floppies but it always nice to have around when say your hard drive flakes out. I bought an SE with an Apple 20SCSI internal and regreted it! Apple's 20mb internal (really a Miniscribe) was sluggish to say the least. I think they changed maker of HD's several times though. But, my advice is get a Mac SE with two floppies then pick-up a third party hard disk. It will cost the same as buying a Mac SE with Apple' 20MB installed.