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From: osmigo@ut-emx.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: advice sought on hard drive purchase
Message-ID: <1189@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 12 Mar 88 21:07:54 GMT
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Reply-To: osmigo@emx.UUCP (Ron Morgan)
Organization: Speech Communication UT Austin
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In article <43303@sun.uucp> chuq@sun.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
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>And they're inexpensive. 20 megabyte hard disk under $700, plug it in and
>play. Like, wow.

Jasmine's a good HD. I want to point out to this guy, though, that he should
think VERY carefully before going with a 20meg. 40 megs is, from what I've
seen and heard, becoming the standard. Hypercard stacks are running up to
100K easily. Programs like PageMaker, Word, FullWrite, and so on can quickly
hit 2 megs before any documents are created. I have a megabyte of Fonts and
DA's. If you have a modem, you'll be downloading streams and binaries often,
and these will eat up a lot of space. If you copy software from friends or
download from pirate BBS's, forget it. You'll fill it up overnight. A 40meg
drive is not only much faster than a 20, but also is MUCH more cost-efficient,
in terms of cost-per-megabyte; spend another couple hundred or so and get
twice the space and speed. It's worth it.

Ron Morgan
osmigo@emx.utexas.edu