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Article #5689Re: Is an Apple Hard Disk better than any of the others ???
From: Scott Truesdell
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 1989 01:14
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 1989 01:14
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There is a high likelyhood that the 3rd party drive you may purchase is manufactured by the same company that the Apple brand drive is; Quantum. These are excellent drives despite recent problems with "sticktion" in high humidity environments. Hopefully the sticktion problem will get ironed out. Buy a Quantum from Apple, you get a 90 day warranty. Buy a Quantum from anybody else, you get a 2 year warranty. This is, unless you are getting a GOOD educationaly discount from Apple. BTW, 40 megabytes is too small for a Mac II. 80 is dead minimum unless you plan to run a bare minimum of applications. As an example, my System Folder has 13MB (some fancy background screens) and my Utilties folder has 17MB. I'm probably atypical in my lust for power, but 80MB is awfully cramped... --scott -- Scott Truesdell
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!usc!ucla-cs!uci-ics!truesdel From: truesdel@ics.uci.edu (Scott Truesdell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Is an Apple Hard Disk better than any of the others ??? Message-ID: <1989Oct3.011412.2789@paris.ics.uci.edu> Date: 3 Oct 89 01:14:12 GMT References: <MDH.89Sep18115059@frieda.mitre.org> Sender: news@paris.ics.uci.edu (Network News) Distribution: na Organization: UC Irvine Department of ICS Lines: 22