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From: garey@ut-ngp.UUCP (riggs, austen)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Cheap hard Disks
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Date: Thu, 28-Mar-85 19:58:48 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 28 19:58:48 1985
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Organization: U.Texas Computation Center, Austin, Texas
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	David Lees was asking about cheap 20 meg hard disks, in particular
from PC's Limited here in Austin Texas.  I bought one two days ago.  The
current price is $775 although the april byte magazine has them listed
at $695 (I called them about that and they said thats wrong.  I think
its their April price.).

	The Drive is a microscience half height.  The listing on the
outside said it had two bad sectors and listed where they were.  The
controller is a Western Digital WX2.  They pre format the drives in the
shop before they send them out to make sure they work properly and it
worked first time everytime..... so far.  The documentatioon is minimal,
about 5 pages of poor xerox copy.  There is a floppy that comes with it
and I guess it has utilites for messing with the drive.  If there is
no floppy in the machine it automatically boots on the C: drive with
21.4 megabytes free.

	I hope this helps.  I'm not connected in any way with the above
mentioned company.  In fact I'm a little mad at them.  They only provided
2 mounting screws instead of the 4 required.  By the way the drive is
in my friends Zenith Z150 because I haven't got mine yet.

		Jim GArey    garey@ut-ngp.arpa