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From: ART100@psuvm.psu.edu (Andy Tefft)
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Subject: Re: 8/16-Central (and other Apple stuff)
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Date: 10 Dec 90 20:46:01 GMT
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I now have to wonder what I ever did without my Unidisk 3.5 on
my //c. I got it used for about $125 and it's my only external
drive.  I agree that a hard drive would probably be better, but
I figure 800k at a time is plenty (140k is not), and you
get unlimited storage with a floppy drive (in 140k or 800k
chunks) as long as you keep buying disks. Just adding up the
3.5" disks i have on hand, I have at least 24 megs of storage
available at a cost of less than $6 per meg, which goes down
as I buy blank disks (if I buy another 50 disks at $.50 each,
the cost will go down to about $4/meg). That's pretty economical.
I haven't wished for a hard drive since getting the Unidisk.
It wouldn't be much faster on my //c (from what I've heard),
and with 800k per disk I rarely fill up a disk before I want
to (I don't have too many to keep track of, and don't have any
files that are > 800k although some are > 140k).

Enough justification? For me and my //c, it is.