Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!think!bloom-beacon!oberon!pollux.usc.edu!papa
From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Cheap hard drives
Message-ID: <7930@oberon.USC.EDU>
Date: 28 Mar 88 23:54:42 GMT
References: <7799@cisunx.UUCP> <8134@cisunx.UUCP>
Sender: news@oberon.USC.EDU
Reply-To: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Organization: Felsina Software, Los Angeles, CA
Lines: 30

In article <8134@cisunx.UUCP| ejkst@cisunx.UUCP (Eric J. Kennedy) writes:
|I am on a quest for the cheapest 20 Meg I can find.
|
|1.  I know the Wedge has been discussed here.  Does anybody have any
|information about it?  Like, cost, name & address of company,
|reliability, exactly what hardware you need besides the wedge board, 
|might I have problems slapping it onto my Starboard2, etc...  Since 
|this has been discussed, perhaps mail would be the best way to respond.
|
|2.  Speaking of my Starboard2, I hear MicroBotics makes a SCSI interface 
|for it called the StarDrive.  Anybody have info on this? (I mean besides 
|their vague AmigaWorld ad.)  I priced SCSI drives in Computer Shopper, and I 
|figure about $380 for a ST225N, and $90 for a power supply and case, plus 
|the cost of the StarDrive, $130 list.  This comes to about $600, which is
|better than a new Cltd or Supra, but I'd like to do better.  Is this all
|the hardware I'll need?  Am I missing something obvious?  Subtle?  
|
|3.  Any other suggestions?  I don't think I'm up to something like the
|Palomax package.  It sounds a little too involved for a non-hardware

Pick up the LATEST (just out) issue of Computer Shopper.  It compare pros and
cons of all the systems you have mentioned, gives addresses, etc...

-- Marco Papa

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
uucp:...!pollux!papa       BIX:papa       ARPAnet:pollux!papa@oberon.usc.edu

 "There's Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Diga!" -- Leo Schwab [quoting Rick Unland]
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=