torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) (03/15/91)
rjc@geech.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) writes: >In article <7920@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> blissmer@expert.cc.purdue.edu (Corey) writes: > They must be some REAL slow HD's. 40mb Quantum's or Fujitsu's which >are between 11ms and 19ms cost about $400 in bulk. Well, just flipping to the back of my most recent MacWeek... Here we go, Wholesale 54 Quantum 40MB internal 12ms $219 Where do you buy your drives?? >Yeah, and let's get Xerox in there and have them sue Apple. Xerox has already tried and failed. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Evan Torrie. Stanford University, Class of 199? torrie@cs.stanford.edu "If it weren't for your gumboots, where would you be? You'd be in the hospital, or in-firm-ary..." F. Dagg
rjc@geech.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) (03/15/91)
The Classic has built in SCSI, but no HD on the cheapest model, therefore the SCSI controller is just setting there doing nothing. Second, it's a slow controller. On the Amiga there are hundreds of controllers out there now, and because of heavy competition they have gotten faster and cheap. Atleast on the Amiga I can shop around for the best HD controller. I just read in the Mac conference that Apple recommends discarding the 9" B&W monitor for a bigger one, because System 7.0 doesn't look too good on a small monitor, and screen space is valuable. They also recommend getting a Mac LC if you want to run 7.0 because it's slow and takes up a lot of memory on a Classic. So that 9" super small B&W monitor isn't as valuable as you once thought. As for HD prices, the HD price I quoted was an external drive in the case with a powersupply. The Amiga can use the same HD's the Mac can (surprise!) so it's not really important to say how much club mac sells them.