bic@cgl.ucsf.edu (Bruce Cohen) (01/05/91)
A friend wants an inexpensive hard drive for a MacPlus. What do you think about the Jasmine portable 40MB advertised for $299? Thanks. -Bruce Bruce Cohen | UUCP: ..ucbvax!ucsfcgl!bic Computer Graphics Lab, S-926 | INTERNET: bic@cgl.ucsf.edu University of California | BITNET: bic@ucsfcgl San Francisco, CA 94143-0446 | VOICE: (415) 476-8291
brisbin@peyote.cactus.org (Shelly Brisbin) (01/05/91)
In article <16857@cgl.ucsf.EDU>, bic@cgl.ucsf.edu (Bruce Cohen) writes: > > A friend wants an inexpensive hard drive for a MacPlus. What > do you think about the Jasmine portable 40MB advertised for $299? > > Thanks. > > -Bruc xMy only experience with this drive is that a friend of mine who ordered one has been waiting several weeks (two months) actually) for hers to arrive. She tells me that in making queries similar to yours, she has found noone who has actually received one of these drives, but that the ads continue to appear in the Mac mags. -- _________________________________________________________________ Shelly Brisbin Leopard Communication brisbin@peyote.cactus.org
costello@stx.UUCP (Michael E. Costello) (01/06/91)
In article <16857@cgl.ucsf.EDU>, bic@cgl.ucsf.edu (Bruce Cohen) writes: > > > A friend wants an inexpensive hard drive for a MacPlus. What > do you think about the Jasmine portable 40MB advertised for $299? > I'd be cautious. The mechanism inside is by Kalok, which doesn't have a lot of experience in Mac applications. Also, it doesn't have a power supply, so you have to plug it into a Mac with an external disk drive port (i.e.--not a II or IIx) or buy an external power supply. ==>MC/BCS*Mac costello@world.std.com ==>617-631-8188