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From: robbins@rice.edu (Thomas Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Syquest 45 Meg Removables
Message-ID: <5474@brazos.Rice.edu>
Date: 4 Mar 90 22:05:14 GMT
References: <5414@brazos.Rice.edu> <34779@cci632.UUCP>
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In article <34779@cci632.UUCP> ph@cci632.UUCP (Pete Hoch) writes:
>In article <5414@brazos.Rice.edu>, root@rice.edu (Brazos) writes:
>> This gives us:
>
>> VENDOR	PRICE		RATING
>> Ehman		$750		3.0
>> Mirror Tech	$750		4.25
>> Maxcess	$850		4.5
>> Microtech	$1100		5.0
>
>> To me it seems like the best quality/price deal is from Mirror Tech.
>
>I would just like to point out that These prices quoted are all list.
>However I found Ehman has no 'street' price where as I have been able
>to get quite a discount from Microtech.  (I have no experiance with
>the other two companies.)  By discount I mean I got a Microtech at
>Macworld last summer for under $800 and a friend of mine just purchased
>on for about $850.  Also Microtech comes with two SCSI cables and they
>remove the internal termination from the Syquest unit and give you an
>external terminator.  I use my Microtech as my boot disk for doing

Hopefully this posting will go without being garbled like my last one.
Unfortunately, my root here at Rice does the actual posting, so I don't
have permission to cancel my own articles!

Anyway, I have been partial to Microtech all along, but was deterred
by the much higher price.  Then two days ago I got the bright idea of 
asking the company about educational discounts.  After much haggling,
the Rice comp store guy managed to get them down to $920, for the new
Syquest mechanism.  (Maybe Microtech doesn't like Rice, or Pete's
friend is a better bargainer.  Oh well! :-)

To make a long story short, I bought it.  Now for the questions.  MacUser
says that a drawback of the Microtech is that is is internally terminated.
1)  What exactly is termination, and what is the signifigance of a drive
being internally terminated?
2)  Pete implies that Microtech has changed their internal termination
design.  Assuming they send me "two SCSI cables, remove the internal
termination, and send me a external terminator", what do I do with it?
How do I set things up?
--
Tom Robbins                          |         Youth is wasted on the young.
robbins@owlnet.rice.edu              |         - George Bernard Shaw
Senior, Chemical Engineering         |         Life is wasted on the living.
Rice University                      |         - Zaphod Beeblebrox IV