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From: lindner@cs.umn.edu (Paul Lindner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: It's arriving Tuesday!!! (+ keyboard gripe)
Message-ID: <1990Dec15.043451.9357@cs.umn.edu>
Date: 15 Dec 90 04:34:51 GMT
References: <47374@apple.Apple.COM>
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, CSci dept.
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In <47374@apple.Apple.COM> sfisher@apple.com (Stephen Fisher) writes:


>I can't believe it, but our NeXTStation is actually arriving on Tuesday.
>That means it's time to start thinking seriously about external disk drives
>(we got the 105M internal). The latest MacWeek had the following drives at
>reasonable prices:

>	MacWren, 337M, 10.5ms
>	MacWren, 618M, 16.5ms
>	Maxtor,  345M, 14.5ms
>	Fujitsu, 345M, ???

>Does anyone know if these drives will work on the NeXTStation, and, if so,
>how to install them? I'm a disktab neophyte. Also, any feelings about which
>drive is "best"?


Well we got ours just yesterday.  Very nice, except NeXT botched the
keyboard.  This new one has a much cheaper feel plus they moved the
backslash and vertical bar to the keypad.  (I guess it's to discourage
people from using a UNIX shell :-> )

But, on to disks...  We got a chance to use the pre-release NextStation
Our university gets a good deal on Rodimes.  We got the older Rodimes
and the newer Rodime Cobras to work.  If anyone wants the specifics I
can point you to the person who actually implemented this.


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