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John Hutchinson (hutch@bellman.lanl.gov) wrote:
: In article 7p2@gabriel.keele.ac.uk, u0h36@keele.ac.uk (Adam Turnbull) writes:
: >I'm thinking of getting a floptical drive, since I'm having an enormous
: >amount of difficulty getting a 40-50 meg hard drive. The ones I'm
: >looking at are the cheap(er) ones like you see in PC mags. How would I
: >go about hooking these up? Obviously I'll need something like the Link,
: >but will I need a case and PSU too?
: 
: Adam, why are you having difficulty obtaining a 40-50Mb hard drive?  If it's
: a cash-flow problem, I can understand that, but otherwise, they are readily
: available from a number of sources.  Just pick up a Computer Shopper mag.
: 
The problem I'm having is getting one from a UK source. After trying all
the companies advertising such drives in the ST magazines here, I was
greeted by them all with "sorry, we don't sell anything less than 80
meg", despite the fact the advertisments claim they do.

I'm trying to stick to a budget of #300 or less, and #150 would be taken
up by the kit without SCSI drive if I went that way. I don't really
fancy importing a drive (mostly because I can't take it back if it goes
wrong), and the prices of bare drives in this country is pretty
ridiculous.

I've only been considering flopticals because they are CHEAPER in this
country than hard drives, but I wasn't sure of their speed. Since I'll be
running gcc/mint/tcsh then speed is fairly important.

Adam