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- From: Matt Ackeret <unknown@apple.com>
- Subject: Re: Lots of questions
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- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.182230.2245@gallant.apple.com>
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 18:22:30 GMT
- X-Xxdate: Wed, 18 Nov 92 10:24:04 GMT
- References: <01GRA166FL4W8Y7VE2@ALBION.BITNET>
- Organization: Apple
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- In article <01GRA166FL4W8Y7VE2@ALBION.BITNET> , AKARPENKO@ALBION.BITNET
- writes:
- >Question #2:
- >I am planning to buy a hard drive in about a month and am looking for a
- few
- >suggestions. I have a Woz ROM 01 GS and am thinking about getting a
- 100+MB
- >hard drive with a RAMfast card. I was looking through the recent
- MacWorld
- >and found a Quantum 110MB ELS for about $340 and a Maxtor 120MB for $400
- both
- >external anyone have any experience using these drives and what
- conversion
- >is necessary to convert these drives from Mac to IIGS?
-
- No conversion at all. Those are SCSI drives, and you won't have to do
- any such 'conversion'.
- Just get them external with a case and power supply (yes I know you
- stated those were
- external, I'm just being thorough), and you can hook 'em up to a SCSI
- card and awaaaay
- you go.
-
- You might want to look into "compact" cases. A lot of the different mail
- order companies
- in Mac magazines sell them, and at least for some of them, there's no
- extra charge. You
- can get the drive in an external case that's smaller than a disk ][
- drive, not much
- bigger (width and height) than an Apple 3.5" drive, only a little longer.
-
- Last year, the best combination I could find of size of hard drive and
- price and smallness
- of case was from APS. Maybe there are better deals this year...
- Apparently there are, since I paid $450 for a 105meg drive.
-
- >Question #4:
- >When I am done modifying my IIGS I plan to have a Prometheus Promodem
- 2400a
-
- Look around at v.32 (9600) and v.32bis (14400) modems. They're getting
- cheaper all the
- time. Unless you're dead set on getting an internal modem, 9600 and
- faster modems
- are so inexpensive nowadays it's hard to justify getting a slower one.
-
- I speak for myself, not Apple.
-