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From: alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: What kind of Mac for AS server?
Message-ID: <1575@ccnysci.UUCP>
Date: 14 Apr 89 06:29:57 GMT
References: <9684@bmc.uu.se> <1529@ccnysci.UUCP> <1531@ccnysci.UUCP>
Reply-To: alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen)
Organization: City College of New York
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In article <1531@ccnysci.UUCP> I wrote:
>The Miniscribes are okay but not worth saving the couple hundred bucks.
>The Rodimes don't even come close. DON'T put one on your server!!! The same
>goes double for the Seagates. The Quantums are extremely nice units, but they
>don't quite match up to even the slowest wren, so unless desk space is at an
>absolute premium, I wouldn't use them (for personal use, on the other hand,
>they're very nice).

Since then I have been to Comdex, and I have some new information. First of
all, as most of you know, Rodime is in some very serious trouble. Maybe it
would be wise to avoid them for now for ANY use.

I hear now that the latest Miniscribes are actually a shade faster than the
Wrens. I'm not sure I believe this, but the fellow who said it should know
what he's talking about.

Miniscribe and Imprimis/CDC both have 5.25" half-height 380MB disks! The
access time claimed is 14-15ms.

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Alexis Rosen
alexis@ccnysci.{uucp,bitnet}