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From: boris@world.std.com (Boris Levitin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Hard Drive for an SE
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Date: 27 Aug 90 07:11:46 GMT
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russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) writes:

>In article <4257@rodan.acs.syr.edu> amichiel@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Allen J Michielsen) writes:

>>   I believe that Quantum no longer makes a 20 MB drive. (Maybe never did...)
>>I also believe that all apple drives smaller than 40 were & are Miniscribe.
>>Further I do think it is true that all apple drive 40 & larger are Quantum.
>>However, it is also true (I think) that apple makes no macs with anything
>>smaller than 40 internal anymore {I should add for systems WITH a hard disk}. 
>>So, the original post was accurate for currently produced machines.
>>al

>Unfortunately, none of this is correct.  I think Apple's 40MB drives were
>all Q250s until the 3.5 drives were available.  However, the HDSC 160 is
>not a quantum (I think it is an Imprimis), and some of the 3.5 80s are Sony.
>Apple sold several 3.5 20s, including Rodime and Miniscribe.

Just one user's experience: I administer three machines, an SE with an
Apple-installed 20MB internal Miniscribe, another SE with an Apple-installed
20MB internal Rodime/Europe, and an Apple-brand external 20MB (attached to
a Plus) with a Seagate mechanism.  All of them are slow, whiny and priced so
high I would never buy a new one (one of the SEs is rented and the Plus was
bought at a firesale price from another department, hence the unfortunate
proliferation of the Apple logo on my department's peripherals).

Boris Levitin
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