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From: ritchie@hpldola.HP.COM (Dave Ritchie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: ST hard disk prices..:-(
Message-ID: <11830003@hpldola.HP.COM>
Date: 3 Apr 88 05:49:31 GMT
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 cyliax@ea.ecn.purdue.edu (Ingo Cyliax) writes: 
>
>I think a good solution is to buy the BMS interface and software ($125)
>and get the other stuff elsewhere and put it together yourself. It only
>takes about one evening to assemble all the parts. The BMS interface has
>pretty good instructions, and they have very nice/helpful people when
>you call them about questions. If you don't want to muck with it though,
>get a complete drive.
>
   I agree with what you say, but would probably not go the route of building
my own drive due to the lack of resale value of a homebrew project. I am sure 
that in some cases (such as having many of the parts on hand, or those with 
extremely large amounts of free time) this reduction of cost is attractive
(as it was with my friend), but for others this may not make sense. 
				Dave Ritchie