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From: siritzky@mfci.UUCP (Brian Siritzky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Trade in those dead Jasmines
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Date: 25 Jul 89 22:47:42 GMT
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In article <2774@mace.cc.purdue.edu> ajq@mace.cc.purdue.edu (John O'Malley) writes:
>Microtech International, makers of the Nova line of hard disk drives
>for the Mac, says that they'll give you up to $200 towards the purchase
>of one of their products if you send in your old disk drive.
>
>Their ad on page 37 of this week's MacWEEK (25 July) says that they'll
>take anyone's drive ... working or not.
>
>So ... what's our consensus about Microtech products and service?  Good?
>Bad?  Fast?  Slow?  Quiet?  Anyone tried the trade-in?
>

I called them to see what they would offer for a working 20Mb LoDown Drive.
(Remember Lo-Down -- very apt name!)   At the time they didn't have a price
schedule, even though the ad had been in MacWeek for two weeks.  Anyway,
when the did come up with a price they offered me $20!!   Forget it!  What
do I need to do to get the $200?  It really wasn't worth it for me, but they
may make good deals for people with dead Jasmines.

By strange coincidence, Microtech's offices are directly across the road
from mine.  A couple of times I have gone over there to ask for info.  
They are always friendly, but they have never let me in the office.  They
always send a salesman out to talk to me in the hallway.  Most of their 
sales are done by mail/phone, and they are not equipped to talk face to 
face with customers.  I had wanted to look at their 45 Meg Removable cartridge 
drive.  They could not show me one, I had to go to a nearby dealer to see it.
Also, one of my collegues has bought a tape drive and memory from them.  He
was happy with their service and product.


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Brian Siritzky                                            siritzky@Multiflow.com
Multiflow Computer, Inc.,                                 ...!yale!mcfi!siritzky
31 Business Park Drive, Branford, CT 06405 
(203) 488-6090
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