Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!uport!mcco!robert
From: robert@mcco.UUCP (Robert R. Andrews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: GC Hyperdrive - Reliable ???
Message-ID: <264@mcco.UUCP>
Date: 13 Feb 88 18:52:24 GMT
References: <1395@water.waterloo.edu> <11025@shemp.UCLA.EDU> <40838@sun.uucp>
Organization: Misc Computing Co. Santa Cruz
Lines: 43
Summary: I have one

In article <40838@sun.uucp>, chuq@plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
> 
> >DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES BUY A HYPERDRIVE!
[bunch of stuff condemning hyperdrive deleted]
> 
> If I were you, I'd buy anything else. And I'd find a dealer that tells you
> truths, not what it takes to make a sale. Dealers love GCC. High profit
> margins for everyone. Except for the customer.
> 
> chuq
> Chuq Von Rospach			chuq@sun.COM		Delphi: CHUQ
> 
>                        What do you mean 'You don't really want to hurt her?'
>                                     I'm a Super-Villain! That's my Schtick!

Well I have one of those Hyperdrives.  And.....

Chuq is absoulutely right.   I cannot upgrade or enhance or anything to this
machine without throwing more money at it than I would spend buying a new 
machine. With a larger drive.  The only good thing about it is that it is
fast.  I will eventually donate it to my university.  I wouldn't even want
to try and sell it.  Nobody would pay a resonable price (vs. my cost) and I
wouldn't want to do that to anybody. (well maybe my next door neighbor).
Once they've got you you stay got.  And then they don't even acknowledge
you're alive.  Their support is in the next dimension.  Updates?  Whats
that?  And if you're not paying 200 per month in support fees tough.  BTW
that just means that if your drive goes south they will fix it.  You still
pay shipping from their "authorized dealer" if he cannot fix it in house.
I'll never buy another system I can't take apart with my own hands.
Although if this one acts up again I'll take it apart, I just may not get it
back together again.  

On a more interesting note.  I've got this 300 MB SCSI drive sitting here
and I'm going to hook it up to a friends Mac II.  Drool.  Somebody mentioned
a public domain SCSI driver out there.  Any info?  Does it include source?
What I'm really interested in is sharing partitions of it between a Mac and
an AT unix machine.  But that's a wish item.

Robert Andrews

uunet!uport!mcco!robert

Now that I've got MMU were do I get a MM disk? :^}