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From: larryh@tekcbi.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: external ram disk.
Message-ID: <423@tekcbi.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 9-Dec-85 11:37:24 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  9 11:37:24 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 13-Dec-85 07:34:49 EST
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Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR
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At a recent mac programmers group meeting, a local company (MacVentures)
brought by their external ramdisk (QuickDrive) for a demonstration.  It
consists of a box the same size as the mac external floppy and plugs into
either the printer port or the modem port.  Data is transfered at 900kbits/sec
allowing MacWrite to be launched in 7.4 sec and MacPaint in 5.1 sec.  (One
poor bugger who owns a 128k mac just about fainted away when he saw the speed.)
Base price of the 0.5Mbyte unit is $500 going up to $950 for 2M.  For more
info, write to:
	MacVentures
	P.O. Box 6123
	Aloha, Or  97007
	(503) 645-9696

The usual disclaimers apply.

Larry Hutchinson, Tektronix, Inc. PO Box 500, MS 02-305, Beaverton, OR 97077
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