Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mit-eddie!wuarchive!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!agate!darkstar!ucscb.UCSC.EDU!unknown From: unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Hard Drives (was:Re: 3.5" drives for IIgs...) Message-ID: <10119@darkstar.ucsc.edu> Date: 14 Dec 90 23:59:14 GMT References: <1990Dec14.024315.29707@world.std.com> Sender: usenet@darkstar.ucsc.edu Distribution: usa Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz; Open Access Computing Lines: 27 In article <1990Dec14.024315.29707@world.std.com> lucifer@world.std.com (Kevin S Green) writes: >Correct. I currently use a MicroNet MP100 3.5" harddrive that was marketed >for the Mac. It was on sale at MacWorld at $800 (down from $1100 I think). >Since it uses the same SCSI interface, the //gs can use any Mac HD. All that I realize that this is really really picky of me.. I am just really picky about certain things (such as people mixing up "their," "they're," and "there"... Jeez, it's their native language! They should know it fairly well). Unless you are refering to drives that are advertized as being "for the Mac," there's no such thing as a Mac hard drive! Even in that case the advertizer is incorrect. I JUST realized that you -are- refering to the hard drive being marketed for the Mac and not in actuality a "Mac" hard drive. I still think this might help other people though so I'm still posting it. A hard drive is SCSI or ESDI or one of a few other formats. You CAN correctly say that a drive is an "Apple // drive" if it is an internal drive for the Apple //, since it has its own special controller card. (Note that I'm including the drive and the card in the term "hard drive" in this case). -- /Apple II(GS) Forever! unknown@ucscb.ucsc.edu MAIL ME FOR INFO ABOUT CHEAP CDs\ |WRITE TO ORIGIN ABOUT ULTIMA VI //e and IIGS! Mail me for addresses, & info. | \ "Dammit Bev, is it you inside or is it the clown?" -IT by Stephen King /