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From: baumgart@esquire.dpw.com (Steve Baumgarten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Experiences mail-ordering from APS?
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Date: 5 Nov 90 16:43:27 GMT
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In-reply-to: wiseman@tellabs.com (Jeff Wiseman)

In article <4439@tellab5.tellabs.com>, wiseman@tellabs (Jeff Wiseman) writes:
>When I got my 40M drive from APS, I took a quick look at the power tools but
>when I saw that the partitioning was no where near as good as silverlining's, I
>reformatted the drive (first verrryyy carefully backuping up the PD software
>archive they provided :-) :-) and loaded a silverlining driver.

This is what I did.  The APS tools are fine, but they are quite
limited.  I wanted resizable and AU/X partitions, however, and for
that SilverLining is hard to beat.

But the APS partitions are true (hard) partitions, not disk files like
SUM creates.

I also wanted to mention that the APS folks were extremely
professional and knowledgable on the phone -- they even called
Airborne, while I was on the phone, to make sure that the drive had
in fact shipped when they thought it had.

Their prices aren't always the absolute cheapest (it depends on what
you're getting from them), but I can't imagine dealing with a more
professional or helpful company.

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   cmcl2!esquire!baumgart       |                           - David Letterman