chan@motcid.UUCP (Ernie Chan) (01/30/91)
songer@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu (Christopher M Songer) writes: > The drive is a Fujitsu 2263SA SCSI drive. Accoring to the >Technical Handbook included with the drive, it is 772Meg >unformated and 671 Meg formatted in 512 Byte sectors. I bought the >drive from Fast Access in Hammond Ill. for $1412.00 + $12.35 for >shipping to W.Lafayette In. The contact name is Mal Steadman and >the phone number is 708 530 7749. > The terms of the sale were that I sent them a cashier's check >for the $$ and they shipped the drive. They will (I understand) ship >COD. I sent the money on a Tuesday, overnight mail. So they received my >order Wednesday, shipped the drive Friday and I got it Monday. > Obviously, I might have all this wrong. It is correct to the >best of my knowledge, however. I have no association with Fast >Access other than being a pleased customer. >-Chris RATS! I wanted to be a pleased customer also. Unfortunately, when I called our company's local rep for Fast Access, I was told that they don't have any more of the drives in stock. Worse yet, it seems that the sudden interest for a drive with this price has made them extinct on stock room shelves everywhere. Fast Access says they probably not get another shipment of drives from Fujitsu until around the Feb/Mar time border. Anyone else know of an alternate source selling these drives? It looks like Chris got one of the last ones from Fast Access. _______________________________________________________________________________ Ernie Chan |...!uunet!motcid!chan Motorola Radio Telephone Systems Group |chan@mot.com (708)632-6685-- _______________________________________________________________________________ Ernie Chan |...!uunet!motcid!chan Motorola Radio Telephone Systems Group |chan@mot.com (708)632-6685
stung@greatwhite.cs.indiana.edu (Sho-Huan Simon Tung) (01/31/91)
In article <4470@pewter7.UUCP> chan@motcid.UUCP (Ernie Chan) writes: >songer@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu (Christopher M Songer) writes: > > >> The drive is a Fujitsu 2263SA SCSI drive. Accoring to the >>Technical Handbook included with the drive, it is 772Meg >>unformated and 671 Meg formatted in 512 Byte sectors. I bought the >>drive from Fast Access in Hammond Ill. for $1412.00 + $12.35 for >>shipping to W.Lafayette In. The contact name is Mal Steadman and >>the phone number is 708 530 7749. > >RATS! I wanted to be a pleased customer also. Unfortunately, when I >called our company's local rep for Fast Access, I was told that they >don't have any more of the drives in stock. Worse yet, it seems that >the sudden interest for a drive with this price has made them extinct >on stock room shelves everywhere. Fast Access says they probably not >get another shipment of drives from Fujitsu until around the Feb/Mar >time border. > >Anyone else know of an alternate source selling these drives? It >looks like Chris got one of the last ones from Fast Access. > I ordered one last week and haven't received it yet. So, I called Fast Access. Fortunately, they told me that the drives are coming in sometime this week and will be available shortly. Simon
chan@mot.com (Ernie Chan) (02/02/91)
stung@greatwhite.cs.indiana.edu (Sho-Huan Simon Tung) writes: >I ordered one last week and haven't received it yet. So, I called >Fast Access. Fortunately, they told me that the drives are coming >in sometime this week and will be available shortly. >Simon Yep, right after reading this, I got a call from Mike and was told that they have about 40 drives coming in next week. I got mine reserved and waiting for pickup. I know that there are a lot of people out there like me that took advantage of the BusinessLand sale to get an inexpensive 030 cube without NeXT's inflated price for a big disk drive. From all the information gathering/shopping around I did this has been the best $$$/megabyte that I could find (thanks to Chris Songer's previous post!) Some things to note: - 5 yr warranty on the drive - 48 hour turnaround time on hardware failure (I guess they keep some in stock for replacement purposes only) from Fast Access. - the price on the drive is rock bottom. I tried to get a quantity discount for a user group and some other people that purchased a diskless cube - no deal. For further info and drive availability contact: Mike Hansen 708-530-7749 708-530-4206 FAX ----------------- usual disclaimers....blah blah blah