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From: Will@cup.portal.com (Will E Estes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: SCSI disks?
Message-ID: <23600@cup.portal.com>
Date: 2 Nov 89 01:43:20 GMT
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< I read an ad in Micro Times, made by "Computer Surplus Store" (715 Sycamore 
< Drive, Miltipas, CA) for som large SCSI disks. The ad reads

< NEW 1/2H 5 1/4" CAST DRIVES

< 14406S 170MB SCSI      $700
< 14405S 140MB SCSI      $575

< I thought the price is too cheap for a "new" drive. Did anybody have any
< experience with this store or with this kind of drives? What is the seek time
?
< Are the drives, and, the shop, reliable? 

My experience with this store is that if you try to sell them something they
offer you *very* little money.  They wanted to pay $1000 for a monochrome 
Mac II with an 80 meg hard disk and PMMU chip.  It doesn't surprise me that 
their merchandise is so competitively priced.  I do wonder who would be willing
 to sell to them for the prices they bid.