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From: buyse@convexe.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: (none)
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Date: 19 Feb 88 00:40:00 GMT
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Nf-From: convexe.UUCP!buyse    Feb 18 18:40:00 1988


I'm not as up as I would like to be on the latest hard-disk products
for the II, but I do know that First Class Peripherals makes a 20- and a
40-Megabyte hard drive.  The mail-order prices that I have seen around
are around $550 for the former and $800-$900 for the latter.

I used to have a Sider ][ (10 meg) a year or two ago, and they simply
made Prodos into two partitions that were adjustable (/HARD1 and /HARD2).
I expect that they use a similar scheme for their large capacity drives,
thus avoiding the problem of the Prodos 32 Meg limit.

I do not know what the access times on these drives are; that seems to be
a relatively unimportant thing in the world of Apple II hard disks (not
unimportant to me, though).  However, if I have my facts straight, these
drives are NOT SCSI.

I believe that CMS makes SCSI drives for the II, and that they come in a
wide variety of sizes (some larger than the Siders).  However, I believe
that they are also more expensive.

I have requested user service info from most of the vendors, but someone
has definitely NOT gotten on the ball; I have heard nary a word.  In
fact, a representative from First Class Peripherals actually called me at
home to see what information I was looking for.  I told her that I wanted
to see specfications on the full range of drives they manufacture.  It
has been about three weeks since that time, and no news at all.

-Russell Buyse.

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