Fast mac internal hard disk!!!!!

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1 total messages Started by Sam Chin Tue, 26 Feb 1985 02:12

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Author: Sam Chin
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 1985 02:12

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For you people who haven't yet got your March byte there is an interesting
hard disk upgrade for the mac described in Jerry Pournell's chaos manor
column. It seems that current mac hard disks are all external and very
slow. So here comes "Hyperdrive". A short excerpt:

    "What's Hyperdrive ?" Jerry asks

    "Well, they open up the Mac and unsolder the 68000 processor chip and
     solder in a socket. Then they put in a piggyback board that holds the
     68000 and a disk-controller chip, and they put the hard disk inside
     the mac's cabinet"

Cost: a cool $2795

Jerry says that the fact that you have to "hack a mac" is a massive
confession of design failure. But who cares for it is finally possible
to configure a high performance mac in its cute little box. When
they bring out Unix for it....

                                                Sam Chin
                                                allegra!cmcl2!acf4!tsc2597
                                                tsc2597@nyu-acf4

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