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From: ostroff@Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.wanted
Subject: Re: 512 drives
Message-ID: <1990Sep25.222806.3803@oswego.Oswego.EDU>
Date: 25 Sep 90 22:28:06 GMT
References: <71884.26FAF868@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> <4568@testeng1.misemi>
Reply-To: ostroff@oswego.Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff)
Organization: Instructional Computing Center, SUNY at Oswego, Oswego, NY
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In article <4568@testeng1.misemi> stanfiel@testeng1.UUCP () writes:
>In article <71884.26FAF868@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> Barry.Chern@p4.f200.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Barry Chern) writes:
>>
>>I have a friend with a 512 whose hard drive has crashed. He doesn't have an
>>SCSI port, and repairing the old drive seems like a waste of money. 

>It might be worth your friends while to consider upgrading his machine
>to include a SCSI port. If the 512 has the 64k ROM set and an 800k
>floppy, there are a number of kits available. 

That would be a 512E, and the original poster indicated he had a 512.  
Personally,  I would be reluctant to upgrade a 512 at this point, with
the Plus going for about $700 and soon to be orphaned, a 512 is really only
worth a couple hundred dollars (I sold a 512E and HD-20 for $450 recently).

I'd suggest opening up the hard drive's case (is it an Apple HD-20?) and
seeing what the actual drive mechanism is.  Assuming the power supply
and interface is ok, you can probably get a cheap replacement bare drive from 
one of the places that advertise in Computer Shopper.  You'll also find
ads for several places that repair bare drives for reasonable fees....

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