EUA@PSUVM.BITNET (Mel DeYoung) (02/25/88)
I've just sold my IBM to get $$ for a hard drive for my Mac and am looking for testimonials concerning hard drives. Price is important to me, and so is future compatibility. Anybody out there wild about their cheap 20 meg drive for their Mac Plus? Thanks in advance for the info
donna@aoa.UUCP (Donna Albino) (02/26/88)
In article <34532EUA@PSUVM> EUA@PSUVM.BITNET (Mel DeYoung) writes: >I've just sold my IBM to get $$ for a hard drive for my Mac and am looking >for testimonials concerning hard drives. Price is important to me, and so >is future compatibility. Anybody out there wild about their cheap 20 meg >drive for their Mac Plus? Thanks in advance for the info Get a Jasmine. They're cheap and filled with 9Mb of PD and shareware games, utilities, telecommunications, etc. I've had mine for over a year, with no complaints.
chuq@plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) (02/27/88)
>Get a Jasmine. They're cheap and filled with 9Mb of PD and shareware >games, utilities, telecommunications, etc. I've had mine for over a year, >with no complaints. Buy a jasmine! We (Fictional Reality, the OtherRealms people) just bought our second, finally decommissioning the old, very reliable, Paradise 10 serial drive [I'm frankly not sure whether to sell it or enshrine it. The drive software is going on three years old, and it works fine with the current system. Certain other disk manufacturers should take note and be ashamed....] They're fast, they're reliable, they're accessible, and they give good support. When I had a problem with the shipment of the first drive, they not only expedited it, they shipped it overnight to me -- at their cost. That's service. You call them on the phone, they have answers. They have a BBS where you can call up and download the new versions of their system software. And they're inexpensive. 20 megabyte hard disk under $700, plug it in and play. Like, wow. (no, I'm not a paid shill for Jasmine. But much of the Mac business community could learn from these folks....) Chuq Von Rospach chuq@sun.COM Delphi: CHUQ There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home. Ken Olson, President, Digital Equiptment, 1977
osmigo@ut-emx.UUCP (03/13/88)
In article <43303@sun.uucp> chuq@sun.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) writes: > >And they're inexpensive. 20 megabyte hard disk under $700, plug it in and >play. Like, wow. Jasmine's a good HD. I want to point out to this guy, though, that he should think VERY carefully before going with a 20meg. 40 megs is, from what I've seen and heard, becoming the standard. Hypercard stacks are running up to 100K easily. Programs like PageMaker, Word, FullWrite, and so on can quickly hit 2 megs before any documents are created. I have a megabyte of Fonts and DA's. If you have a modem, you'll be downloading streams and binaries often, and these will eat up a lot of space. If you copy software from friends or download from pirate BBS's, forget it. You'll fill it up overnight. A 40meg drive is not only much faster than a 20, but also is MUCH more cost-efficient, in terms of cost-per-megabyte; spend another couple hundred or so and get twice the space and speed. It's worth it. Ron Morgan osmigo@emx.utexas.edu