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From: donch@tekirl.TEK.COM (Don Chitwood)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Cutting Edge Hard Disk?
Message-ID: <748@tekirl.TEK.COM>
Date: Thu, 10-Sep-87 15:12:52 EDT
Article-I.D.: tekirl.748
Posted: Thu Sep 10 15:12:52 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 12-Sep-87 15:59:35 EDT
Organization: Tektronix Inc., Beaverton, Or.
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There was an ad recently in a Mac magazine advertising a hard disc drive
by an outfit called Cutting Edge.  The Drive is a 30M unit and they want
something like $675 for it.  I talked to them by phone and was told it
has a 1 year warranty, parts and labor, that the drive was made by Microscience,
that it had head parking and locking, that it was transportable, it came
preformatted and with some Apple backup software.   It sounded pretty good
to me.  Anyone know anything about this company and its products?  

I'm hot to buy a hard disc soon, and $675 just about would empty my pockets.
There's also a Rodime-made (ex-Peachtree) HD that I can get locally for
$665 with a 1 year warranty from Rodime.  Also, there is the Cirrus 21 made
locally by Kammerman Labs.  I've used one of these a bit and really like it,
however, I've been trying to get Kamerman on the phone for over a month, using
the phone numbers in his magazine ads, with no contact yet.  I even went by
the "factory" recently during work hours and it was locked up tight as a drum
with a couple of Wall Street Journals tucked in the front door.  I'm real
nervous buying from an outfit that won't even answer the phone, if the phone
is really there.

Someone on the net is doing a survey of hard discs.  I anxiously await the
results.

Don Chitwood
Tek Labs
Tektronix, Inc.
Beaverton, Or.