bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig) (03/12/91)
Right now I have an old Mac SE (two 800k drives) and a two-year-old
Tulin 50Mb hard drive with (I believe) an access time of 40ms.
I'm seriously thinking of moving up to a Macintosh LC with a 12"
monochrome display.
I have a list of prices that I can get on the LC through my
university. It tells me that the LC with one high density floppy
drive and one 40Mb hard drive is $1585, while the LC with only one
high-density floppy drive and no hard drive is $1090.
If I sell my 50Mb hard drive, I estimate that I could only get at
_most_ $350 for it -- which means that it would be more cost-effective
for me to keep the drive I've got now and get the HD-less LC instead
of trading up to the 40Mb drive.
Now, there are two important questions I have right now:
(1) Will my drive really slow down my system all that much? My Apple
campus rep thinks that the LC's hard drive has an access time of
something like 18-20 milliseconds, but the `official' brochures I have
from Apple say that an Apple internal 40Mb hard drive has an access
time of 30ms. What's the real speed? Is it relevant? WIll having a
drive that's too slow only really mean that Microsoft Word will load
in twenty seconds rather than fifteen, or will it act to utterly bog
down my 16MHz 68020? (Assume normal usage here -- for example, I'm
not going to be using virtual memory and thus doing any high-volume
disk access like that.)
(2) Is it or ain't it possible to get an LC with a second internal
high-density floppy drive? If so, how much does the second internal
drive go for (university prices)? If not, then why are there two
openings for disks on the front of the LC (one of which is plugged up
when you get an internal HD for it)?
Oh, and a small (3) here, too: Is it true that MaxAppleZoom doesn't
work on an LC? Anyone know if a fix is planned, or is it technically
impossible to get something like that to work?
Thanks for any and all information!
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"It's not that I don't HAVE the work to *do* -- I don't DO the work I *have*."drg@mdaali.cancer.utexas.edu (David Gutierrez) (03/14/91)
In article <7071@idunno.Princeton.EDU> bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig) writes: > (1) Will my drive really slow down my system all that much? My Apple > campus rep thinks that the LC's hard drive has an access time of > something like 18-20 milliseconds, but the `official' brochures I have > from Apple say that an Apple internal 40Mb hard drive has an access > time of 30ms. What's the real speed? Is it relevant? WIll having a > drive that's too slow only really mean that Microsoft Word will load > in twenty seconds rather than fifteen, or will it act to utterly bog > down my 16MHz 68020? > > (2) Is it or ain't it possible to get an LC with a second internal > high-density floppy drive? Maybe these answers are correct. I believe them. If not, someone will be sure to correct me. 1) Keep your old hard drive. The LC and Classic use a slower disk made by Conner Peripherals. Its access time is about 30 ms. Your 40 ms drive is not too swift by today's standards, but it won't bog down your machine. 2) Universities can order two-floppy LCs. They are *not* available through the retail channel. The price list that universities get from Apple states that two-floppy LCs are for institutional purchase only. That can be interpreted two ways: (a) they can be purchased only if the institution will be using them, or (b) since the university buys them before it sells them to the students/employees, they can be sold to students/employees. David Gutierrez drg@mdaali.cancer.utexas.edu "Only fools are positive." - Moe Howard