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From: wjs@milton.u.washington.edu (William Jon Shipley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: SEND ME SCSI DRIVE INFO!!!  (please?)
Summary: I'm making a database
Message-ID: <14704@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 18 Jan 91 20:49:58 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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I'd like to create a database of SCSI drives that hopefully work with
the NeXT.  I've downloaded an older list from sonata, and I'll start with
the (meager) info there.

Even if you just see a cheap drive in an ad, and haven't tested it, send the
info to me, with the appropriate fields marked.  The idea is to set up a
system like some nice netters are doing with RAM prices, where I can post
the latest and greatest deals every month or so.

The fields I'd like to see are:

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Drive Name:
Model Number:
Manufacturer:

Size Unformatted:
Free Space Formatted:
Average Access Time:

Physical Size:
SCSI-1 or SCSI-2:

Price:
Seller:
Phone:
When:

Warranty:

Case and Power Supply included:

Actually Hooked up to NeXT:

Problems:

Comments:
  <for ex, where can we get a case if none included, or can we mount it
  internally, or...>

Source: <who are you?>

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If you have a non-NeXT drive or have seen a good deal on one I encourage you
to take a few moments to fill this out and send it to me.  Leave some of the
fields blank if you wish, I'd rather have partial information than no
information.

I'm still not quite sure how I'll set up the database.  It may end up being
just straight text, or it may be something cool with DBKit.  At any rate,
I'll put it on the ftp sites, and try to maintain it (at least until I can
find someone else to do it).

-william shipley