bushnel@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (60163000) (10/10/88)
Hello: I am looking for a 30 to 60 Mbyte external hard disk for a Mac Plus and I would appreciate any advice people on the net might have concerning various brands. This disk is for the use of my sister. I would recommend the same disk I'm using, a Jasmine 70 Mbyte hard disk, but the Jasmine disks are just a little too expensive for her. I have recently perused the October issue of MacUser, and I found an advertisement that looked interesting. A mail-order outlet called "MacLand" (p. 97) sells CMS, MicroNet, and other brands of hard disks for what appear to be rock-bottom prices. I was particularly interested in the CMS MacStack60 for $749, and the MicroNet MicroStack62 for $739. Both hard disks have about 60 Mbytes capacity. If any of you have disks of either of these brands, please send me your opinion of them. Also, I am open to suggestions of brands I have not yet mentioned here. I am also interested in knowing if anyone has any opinions on the mail-order dealer, "MacLand." Thanks for your help, Bill Bushnell bushnel@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Bill Bushnell)
chucks@acdpyr.ucar.edu (Chuck Smythe) (10/11/88)
In article <5044@saturn.ucsc.edu> bushnel@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Bill Bushnell) writes: > I am looking for a 30 to 60 Mbyte external hard disk for a Mac Plus >............ A mail-order outlet called "MacLand" (p. 97) sells CMS, >MicroNet, and other brands of hard disks for what appear to be rock-bottom >prices. I was particularly interested in the CMS MacStack60 for $749..... I bought one of these about two months ago. No problems with the dealer or the disk to date, and I already have close to three hundred hours on it. Minuses: a little more prone to shrieking (discharge brush?) than my old Jasmine 20 (a great disk, BTW!), minimum documentation, not particularly fast. Still, a LOT of megabytes per buck. Chuck Smythe (Standard disclaimers here)
dumesny@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Alain Dumesny) (10/11/88)
In article <829@ncar.ucar.edu> chucks@acdpyr.UCAR.EDU (Chuck Smythe) writes: >In article <5044@saturn.ucsc.edu> bushnel@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Bill Bushnell) writes: >> I am looking for a 30 to 60 Mbyte external hard disk for a Mac Plus >>............ A mail-order outlet called "MacLand" (p. 97) sells CMS, >>MicroNet, and other brands of hard disks for what appear to be rock-bottom >>prices. I was particularly interested in the CMS MacStack60 for $749..... I bought a CMS Pro-60 IIi from them (60 meg internal for mac II) and had no problem what so ever. They even included a mouse pad with the drive. Nice touch (especially since I needed one). I would recomend the CMS and MacLand. ------ Alain Dumesny Cornell University dumesny@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu General disclaimer........:-)
alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen) (10/11/88)
bushnel@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Bill Bushnell) asks about MicroNet and CMS drives.
I buy a fair number of disks, and I wouldn't buy from anyone else. Charles
McConnathy, the president of MicroNet, is a very savvy guy who does an
extremely good job. He was responsible for CMS's capturing a large part of
the Mac drive market by building a good solid product at a great price. Now
that he has left CMS and started MicroNet, I expect even better things.
Buy CMS if you want to be sure that they will be around to serve you. They
are a huge company with good service.
Buy micronet if you want the best service. They are a smaller company, and
anything could happen to them. On the other hand, I'm betting they'll be around
for a long time. They are the first company with wren IVs for the mac and the
first with 150mb tape drives (and at a price that competes with some people's
40 mb tapes!).
Either way, you can't go wrong.
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