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From: rb@ccird1.UUCP (Rex Ballard)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Loads and loads of SCSI drives for Mac+ -- Which to choose?
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Date: Mon, 2-Jun-86 15:27:49 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun  2 15:27:49 1986
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Summary: Want a real shock!! Try Mini-Micro Systems.

In article <220@colossus.fluke.UUCP> moriarty@fluke.UUCP (Jeff Meyer) writes:
>Well, I decided that making my own 20 Meg hard drive system for the Mac+
>wasn't worth the $250 difference it takes to buy the whole shebang outright
>from one of the third-party companies offering external hard drives for
>Mac+s.  So I picked up the latest issue of MacWorld and BOOM!  An article
>listing about 8 different companies offering these things!
>

I saw that little article too, frankly I was surprised that there were only
8 makers listed.  A recent article in Mini-Micro systems included over
20 makers including SyQuest and Kodak removable drives, prices ranged from
$800 for a 20 MB drive to $5000 for a 300 MB drive all with SCSI interfaces.
Also available were some QIC tape drives, and some WORMs, also with SCSI.

It appears that the MAC-Plus driver routines are quite sufficient for
virtually all of the SCSI drives now on the market.  It won't be long
before there are literally hundreds of choices available for the MAC.
It's probably just a matter of advertizers catching up with the 3 month
lead time of the popular magazines.  I'm sure there were more than a few
companies caught by suprise by the MAC+ announcements.

IBM, eat your heart out :-).

P.S.  Take a look at the May and June BYTE articles by Ciarcia to see
just how flexible the SCSI interface really is.