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From: dan@msdc.UUCP (Dan Forsyth)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: What to buy after a ROM upgrade?
Message-ID: <166@msdc.b.msdc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 2-Jul-86 18:57:03 EDT
Article-I.D.: msdc.166
Posted: Wed Jul  2 18:57:03 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 4-Jul-86 07:38:13 EDT
Reply-To: dan@msdc.UUCP (Dan Forsyth)
Organization: Medical Systems Development Corp., Atlanta GA
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I just got the ROM and disk drive upgrade for my 512K Mac.  Like many others,
I find that I now have to deal with disks that won't read in my 400K drive if
I want to take advantage of the extra storage space.  So I have to rearrange
my whole way of doing things or buy more hardware.

I tried discussing the option of purchasing a "spare" 800K drive and putting
it in myself, but I couldn't get anywhere with the bozos running the store. 
(I couldn't tell if I was asking the bureaucratically difficult or merely the
incomprehensible.)  I've seen "close out" 10MB hard disks going as low as
$500, which even if they're only a little faster than a floppy, would seem
better than paying Apple's price for a whole new external drive.

Since I use the Mac mostly for keeping a family business' records and as a
semi-intelligent workstation, I don't know that it's really worth $1000 for
decent hard disk.  (Plus the fact, I'm toying with the idea of selling the
512K to "the business", and buying the "next generation" Mac and a hard disk
for my play toy.)  I don't really need 20MB of space, I mean the extra 400K
I just got seems like the "wide open spaces" to me.  (I administer a 10GB
data base at work; I guess it's all relative.)  But I might go for a drive
that I could use again later.

Anyway, what would all you folks who use your Macs for real work do in my
situation?  I'll appreciate any information you can give me and if I get
anything of general interest, I'll summarize & repost.
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Dan Forsyth ({akgua,gatech,mcnc}!msdc!dan)
Medical Systems Development Corporation, Atlanta, GA