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From: david@randvax.UUCP (David Shlapak)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Double sided drives?
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Date: Fri, 2-Aug-85 13:54:26 EDT
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> > Does anyone have any knowledge of the Haba double-sided drive
> > described in the PC Network ad on p.188 of the August MacWorld?
>
> ...I called Haba, and they said that the 800k drive is
> NOT yet available, they are still choosing a vendor for the drives...
> -- 
> 					Tim Smith
> 				ihnp4!{cithep,wlbr!callan}!tim

    Well, I dunno.  My brother bought an "800k" Haba disk from Telasoft
    In Phoenix about a month ago.  Several interesting things:

	o He has absolutely NO IDEA if or how the thing stores 800k, 'cause
	  absolutely NO DOCUMENTATION comes with the device.

	o The disk doesn't seem to interface seamlessly with the Mac.  He
	  has had disks go bad magically while sitting peacefully in the
	  drive, and it has apparently trashed disks while "cleaning them
	  up" prior to ejecting them.

	o The eject mechanism in the drive will send your disk into low Earth
	  orbit if you let it.

    All in all, my advice (not necessarily my brother's) is AVOID, AVOID,
    AVOID.

					    --- das