scollins@uswat.uswest.com (Steven Collins) (11/09/90)
Is the 40MB drive a free upgrade to current Cube owners? Why and when was this done? (speed?) If I buy a cube now, would I be eligible? Thanks for the info! -Steve scollins@lookout.uswest.com
cbradley@blackbox.lonestar.org (Chris Bradley) (11/09/90)
In article <12709@uswat.UUCP> scollins@uswat.uswest.com (Steven Collins) writes: > > Is the 40MB drive a free upgrade to current Cube owners? > Why and when was this done? (speed?) > If I buy a cube now, would I be eligible? The program has expired, as far as I can tell. This upgrade program was designed to boost system performance for users of Optical-Disk-only systems and (diskless) Networker systems, by providing a local, 40MB SCSI swapdisk free of charge. According to my notes, customers received notice of this program from NeXT in January 1990, and the program ended on April 15, 1990; however, there were a (very) few upgrades performed after that date for people who made a convincing case. The drives that were installed in our Networkers were Quantum 40S's: Average Seek Time - 19 ms Transfer rate - 4.0 MB/sec synchronous, 2.0 mb/sec asynchronous Look-ahead cache - 64 kb Interleave - 1:1 Error correction - 48-bit computer generated cyclic ECC, automatic retry on read errors Power comsumption - 8 watts (27.3 BTU/hr) idle, 9 watts (30.7 BTU/hr) typical operation SCSI specifications - ANSI standard SCSI host interface, CCS, Rev 4B Fully-integrated SCSI controller SCSI terminated on-board with removable terminator packs SCSI ID factory configured to 6 -- Chris Bradley | "I confess freely to you, I could never look Businessland Advanced Systems | long upon a monkey, without very mortifying Dallas, Texas US | reflections." cbradley@blackbox.lonestar.org | -- WILLIAM CONGREVE 1670-1729