Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!tektronix!reed!percival!edrury
From: edrury@percival.UUCP (Ed Drury)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: ST hard disk prices..:-(
Message-ID: <1156@percival.UUCP>
Date: 13 Mar 88 07:09:39 GMT
References: <409@ole.UUCP>
Reply-To: edrury@percival.UUCP (Ed Drury)
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Organization: Percy's UNIX, Portland, OR.
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In article <409@ole.UUCP> deep@ole.UUCP (Pradeep Chilka) writes:
>Why oh why does Atari charge an arm and a leg for their hard 
>disk drives ~600-800 when I can get a 20MB hard disk for an AT 
>for less than $300? I like the ST but would I shell out that
>much for a hard disk (which incidentally I think is a must)? No way.
>I almost feel like now considering the AT which I can now pick up
>for < $1K, almost the same price as a 1040ST.
>
>grumble, grumble,
>
>Pradeep
>(I had to tell someone...)
>
>uw-beaver!tikal!ole!deep

 Can you get a 20 meg *stand alone* HD for your AT at <$300 including case,
power supply, fan, contoller board and cable? That is a good deal of the price
difference I would think. Sure , if you needed just the mechanism you could get
a 40 to 60 meg 28 MS miniscribe. You can get an interface to use such drives
with your ST, but I think you would pay a couple hundred just for the face
and still need a controller power supply and a case. Many have gone this way
and gotten 40-60 fast hard disks for about the same as an SH204. But then you
need software (which is also included in the SH204). The Atari HD situation
really isn't any worse than the Amiga one.......
           

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