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From: isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ken Hancock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Trade in those dead Jasmines
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Date: 25 Jul 89 19:26:24 GMT
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In article <7075@microsoft.UUCP> ericsc@microsoft.UUCP (Eric Schlegel) writes:
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>I strongly recommend against Nova drives. Microtech has a contract with
>Dartmouth College to supply Nova drives to the computing center there.
>I've seen the drives of two of my friends die (one of those drives, after
>being fixed and failing a second time, was eventually replaced) and the
>repair shop at Dartmouth runs a full-time business fixing Novas.

While what Eric says is true (actually we -had- a contract with them,
it's currently with Everex who is going down the tubes...),
I'll point out that I've had a Nova 30 (Microtech) for two years
which has performed flawlessly.  In addition, they do have a
five year warranty.  Since I haven't had any problems, I can't
say how reliable their service department is.

On a side note, seeing how Jasmine is having huge problems,
if something happens to your Jasmine, I doubt you'll get much
out of them.

For those MacWeek enthusiasts who are looking to buy
a hard disk at a good price, check out this week's issue,
page 28 -- GCC Technologies has just announced a new line
of hard disks with good prices and zero-footprint design.

Disclaimer: Although I'm working for GCC Technologies this
summer, I'm not going to make anything off of your buying
a drive...

Ken

Ken Hancock  '90                   | BITNET/UUCP/
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