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From: costello@stx.UUCP (Michael E. Costello)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Jasmine Drives
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Date: 28 Jan 91 17:21:13 GMT
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In article <4603@lib.tmc.edu>, drg@mdaali.cancer.utexas.edu (David Gutierrez) writes:
> 
> In article <1991Jan27.034045.10292@midway.uchicago.edu> 
> xdab@ellis.uchicago.edu (David Baird) writes:
> > I received yesterday a mailing from Jasmine in which they are
> > making an offer for a 40 MB Drive for $299.00 if you call
> > an 1-800-number. Does anyone in netland know anything about
> > this drive.  It looks like a nice compact unit, similar to the
> > IDS Wips sealed units. 
> 
> It's the same drive; Jasmine (or Jasmine-Chess SA) bought iDS. I agree 
> with Kevin Rudd, though; I'd suggest you buy a drive somewhere else. 
> Getting a drive from Jasmine is too much like Russian roulette.
> 
> David Gutierrez
> drg@mdaali.cancer.utexas.edu
> 
> "Only fools are positive." - Moe Howard
> 
> 
IT IS NOT the same drive.  Jasmine and iDS are both owned by Chess; however
the $299 Jasmine is not the same as an iDS WIP.

The WIPs are quite nice--very compact (especially the new 1/3 height versions,
though they only have one SCSI port) with quality mechanisms (Quantum in
1/2 height, Conner in 1/3 height).

The low cost Jasmine, while lacking a fan and a power supply, is significantly
larger than a WIP.  It also contains a Kalok mechanism.

==>Michael Costello                   costello@world.std.com
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