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From: alex@sdcsvax.UUCP (Alex Pournelle)
Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.cpm,sdnet.computing
Subject: Re: SEIMANS DRIVES
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Date: Fri, 1-Jun-84 16:17:36 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun  1 16:17:36 1984
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Workman & Assoc. has ten Siemens 8" SS drives in action.  We've had a
bad time with DOAs, but once we found drives that worked, they always
worked.  Don't know about the DS ones.

The Siemens drives are a little slower than yon Qumes.  We've had even
less trouble with Qumes.

With the price of Siemens drives, one of our peeps bought a spare drive.
Priority One's $99 price is only $25 more than official service price.

W&A also sells spare parts kits for the Siemens SS drives.  This
includes belts, index assemblies, etc..  We've had much less call for
them than the Tandon 5-1/4" drive kits (of which we have sold
hundreds).  Of course, Tandons have the famous door latch problem.

A warning on Mitsubishi 8" drives.  They ain't standard.  CompuPro, CCS,
and several other systems upchuck when you attempt to use them.  There
are differences in the precompensation settings & other things.  This is
why Priority One no longer sells them.

Alex