Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tektronix!reed!kamath
From: kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Apple 3.5 drives
Message-ID: <10520@reed.UUCP>
Date: 5 Oct 88 18:09:57 GMT
References: <773@mace.cc.purdue.edu> <12516@oberon.USC.EDU>
Reply-To: kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath)
Organization: Reed College, Portland OR
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In article <12516@oberon.USC.EDU> rfischer@skat.usc.edu (Roger Fischer) writes:
>Sorry to let you know, but replacing the entire drive is all that you will
>ever get no matter where you go and what the problem is.  200 is a little
>steep though,  A more standard price would be about 100 for the drive and 
>about 60 for the labor.
>Roger
>rfischer@skat.usc.edu

Ah, yes, it's sad but true.

Another little nugget of information to sprout forth from my glowing
fingertips:

Pro-Owned Electronics specializes in Apple parts.  Interrestingly enough,
they sell an internal 800K drive for $215.

Two pages back (roughly), another company is selling external mac disk
drives (800K) for $175. . .

So, save yourself $35 and get a free cable and case!

In case anyone out there is wondering, the drive mech's for all 800K drives
sold by apple are basically the same.  This includes the 800K mac, Unidisk
and Apple 3.5 incher.  A small amount of recabling in necessary for the
unidisk, since it has a 6502 in the drive itself.

In any case, $200 for a repair is rediculous.  You *really* can do this
yourself.  It is just about the simplest swap there is.  *mucH* easier than
swapping the 5.25 inch disks.

Sean Kamath

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