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From: AABENSON@MTUS5.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: 3.5" drives for IIgs...
Message-ID: <90345.155454AABENSON@MTUS5.BITNET>
Date: 11 Dec 90 20:54:54 GMT
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Organization: Computing Technology Services, Michigan Technological Univ.
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Good point about pricing.  My Apple 3.5 Drive died about 7 or 8 months ago,
and then those prices started jumping in my face!  I called the local Apple
dealer (haha!  What was I thinking?!), and after waiting on "hold" for about
10 minutes, they came back and told be it would be "... only $349!!"  Wow!
I couldn't believe it!  Something with a little half-eaten apple on it for
LESS than $1000!!  Well, that idea went out the window immediately, and I
ended up getting AE's 3.5 drive.  I thought about other 3rd party drives,
but I decided against them, because I had heard that there have been some
problems with compibility problems.  They say the mechanism is the same Sony
one that Apple (^oops^) uses in their drives, and it looks, sounds, and
feels pretty much the same.  And besides, you get a two-colored LED instead
of just the normal red "in-use" light.  (On AE's, you get red for write, and
green for read.)

                                                  - Andrew.
Internet: aabenson@balance.cs.mtu.edu
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