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From: mackay@iisat.UUCP (Daniel MacKay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple,misc.wanted
Subject: Re: //c Hard drives (or: Save a SYSOP from going insane)
Summary: Sun Remarketing/Quark
Message-ID: <414@iisat.UUCP>
Date: 4 Apr 89 11:52:31 GMT
References: <16587@cup.portal.com>
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In article <16587@cup.portal.com>, Geva_Apple-Maniac_Patz@cup.portal.com writes:
> 
> I own a  small GBBS system running off an Apple //c with a UniDisk 3.5
> I am forced to start
> looking for a hard drive.

I recently bought an old Quark 10m drive for 400$Cdn; if you can find one
it may keep you happy for a while.  The quarks are kind of neat; they work
with the //e (daisy-chained into the Disk ][ controller), the //c, the Mac 
(on the serial port) and even the Apple /// (daisy chained to the Disk ///
external port).  They have two three-way switches on the back, and you tell 
the machine what computer it's hooked up to.

I was interested because I have a friend with a /// who needs a hard disk 
occasionally, a Mac buddy who has it most of the time, and there are 
times when I want it on my //c.

The Quark hard disk can be partitioned into SOS, Prodos, Mac, // CP/M,
and (I think) ][ DOS volumes.  It comes in 10M & 20M sizes.

None of the machines boots from the Quark; it comes with a copyable/
configurable startup disk for each machine, which, in Prodos' case, pops
a little driver into Prodos on the way up.

Sun Remarketing is selling the Quarks refurbished but in the catalog
I only see the 20M version for 895$US, which is a bit outrageous.  You 
may want to call them and talk them into a deal, at 1-800-821-3221.

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