Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sdcsvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!houxz!vax135!floyd!cmcl2!seismo!hao!hplabs!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!alex From: alex@sdcsvax.UUCP (Alex Pournelle) Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.cpm,sdnet.computing Subject: Re: SEIMANS DRIVES Message-ID: <850@sdcsvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Jun-84 16:17:36 EDT Article-I.D.: sdcsvax.850 Posted: Fri Jun 1 16:17:36 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Jun-84 06:55:40 EDT References: <1514@sdccs6.UUCP> Organization: U.C. San Diego; freelance writer Lines: 21 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