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From: dbarnhar@oiscola.Columbia.NCR.COM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Will old HD20 work w/new Macs?
Message-ID: <289@oiscola.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Date: 30 Aug 90 15:33:11 GMT
References: <4272@dogie.macc.wisc.edu> <1990Aug29.183707.4385@oswego.Oswego.EDU>
Reply-To: dbarnhar@oiscola.UUCP (David C. Barnhart II)
Organization: NCR/OISD Columbia
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In article <1990Aug29.183707.4385@oswego.Oswego.EDU> ostroff@oswego.Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff) writes:
>In article <4272@dogie.macc.wisc.edu> yahnke@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Ross Yahnke, MACC) writes:
>>It seems that the old serial-based HD20 drives from Apple won't
>>work on the newer Mac models like the SE/30 and II line. You plug
>>'em into the diskette port but it never shows up on the desktop.
>
>I bought one when it first came out and sold it last summer.  It is still
>working perfectly, as is the one in my office.  They have been in continuous
>use since 1985  and have never had any problems, which is more than I can
>say for most of the SCSI disks I've seen!  BTW, we've found that performance
>improves dramatically by setting the RAM cache to 1MB on a Mac Plus.
>You can probably find someone who will buy it to use with at 512 or 512e,
>though.... 

Even though this really belongs in comp.sys.mac.wanted, I wanted this to be
on this thread.  I have been looking for one of those drives for several
months (for a 512K mac using the HD20 startup).  If you want to get rid of
the drive, and the price is right, I'll sure be willing to consider buying it.

Dave Barnhart
NCR Cooperative Computing Systems Division
3245 Platt Springs Rd.
West Columbia, SC  29169    email: uunet!ncrlnk!ncrcae!secola!oiscola!dbarnhar


























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Dave Barnhart
NCR Cooperative Computing Systems Division
3245 Platt Springs Rd.
West Columbia, SC  29169    email: uunet!ncrlnk!ncrcae!secola!oiscola!dbarnhar