Re: Trade in those dead Jasmines

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From: edwin.g.green
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1989 12:23

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In article <117752@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> cramer@sun.com (Sam Cramer) writes:
>In article <14646@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>, isle@eleazar (Ken Hancock) writes:
>>page 28 -- GCC Technologies has just announced a new line
>>of hard disks with good prices and zero-footprint design.
>
>I seem to recall that in the dim, dark hyperdrive past, GCC had a pretty
>lousy reputation.  Haven't heard anything about them in the past few years,
>though.

I just performed a lobotomy on my Plus to remove a HyperDrive 20.  It worked
pretty well with the 512, but when I upgraded, it would trash sectors any
time you powered down.  It was also very noisy (GCC adds a fan).

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From: edg@cbnewsd.ATT.COM (edwin.g.green)
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Subject: Re: Trade in those dead Jasmines
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Date: 26 Jul 89 12:23:09 GMT
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