kautz@allegra.att.com (Henry Kautz) (11/13/90)
I'm planning on getting the following devices for a IIfx, and would greatly appreciate info from anyone who has used one (or a competing brand): (1) Matrix Procolor (or maybe Slidewriter) Film Recorder (for making 35mm slides) A big problem here is the lack of PostScript. One dealer suggested a standalone RIP (Postscript interpreter), but that was way too expensive --- $15,000. 3rd party software interpreters (eg Freedom of the Press) seem rather klugy to use. Are any <$10,000 Postscript slide makers coming out? Now that you can get a Postscript color printer for $7,000 it seems not unreasonable. (2) Proxima Data Display (LCD panel that is used with an overhead projector). I`m looking for a COLOR high quality unit. Any experience here??? Or even pointers to reviews??? (3) Fujitsu hard disks from Mac!Direct!: 680 MB External for <$2000, with a 5 year factory warranty. Lots of folks sell the 600 MB Seagate Wrens at that price, but that has only a 1 year warranty. For that matter: is there a difference between a "Wren" and a "MacWren"? I suspect that there is something different about the SCSI controller. Thanks in advance! (Please email replies.) -- ---- Henry Kautz :uucp: allegra!kautz :arpa/internet: kautz@research.att.com or kautz@allegra.att.com :csnet: kautz%research.att.com@RELAY.CS.NET :old csnet: kautz%allegra@btl.csnet
bmartin@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Brian Martin) (11/14/90)
>(3) Fujitsu hard disks from Mac!Direct!: 680 MB External for <$2000, > with a 5 year factory warranty. We bought a Fujitsu 68-MB drive from MacDirect. They were easy to deal with, and really seemed eager to help. It formats out to about 650MB with Silverlining, and is a bit noiser than the Imprimis Wren V 600MB and HP650 MB drives that we own (we have _very_ large online medical databases, in case you're wondering what we're doing with all this disk space.) SCSI evaluator shows it to have about the same performance as the WREN V drive, and somewhat lower perfomance than the HP drive (my personal favorite). We bought it because of the 5 year warranty, which is the same reason we bought the HP drive (from LaCie). Best regards, Brian K. Martin, M.D. Martin Information Systems, Ltd. 1103 9th Avenue, Suite 203 Honolulu, Hawai`i 96816-2403 Voice (808) 733-2003 Fax (808) 733-2011 INTERNET: martin@medix.pegasus.com ARPA: uhccux!bmartin@nosc.MIL UUCP: {uunet,dcdwest,ucbvax}!ucsd!nosc!uhccux!bmartin