Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site ssc-vax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!tjj From: tjj@ssc-vax.UUCP (T J Jardine) Newsgroups: net.micro.apple Subject: Re: Hard disk for $695.00? Message-ID: <278@ssc-vax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 17-Dec-84 18:47:45 EST Article-I.D.: ssc-vax.278 Posted: Mon Dec 17 18:47:45 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 19-Dec-84 02:28:07 EST References: <679@ames.UUCP> <400@ucsfcgl.UUCP> Distribution: net.micro.apple Organization: Boeing Aerospace Co., Seattle, WA Lines: 32 About a week before Thanksgiving I ordered one of these 10 MB hard disks from First Class Peripherals, Inc. They sent me a letter about a week later with a copy of their warranty (one page description) that thanked me for ordering their product and informed me that my unit was due for shipment on Dec 3rd. It arrived at my home on Dec 13th, I unpacked it the next day and have had it up and running for 2+ days now. They are very careful in their packing and their documentation. The Sider, as it's called, comes with an interface board that goes only in slot 7, all of the necessary connecting cables, a reference manual, and two double-sided floppy diskettes. One of the four sides of the diskettes contains their installation software to format and verify the disk. The other three sides have utility software for use in installing ProDos, CP/M (either PCPI or Microsoft), and Apple Pascal (either 1.1 or 1.2). DOS 3.3 is supported as a matter of course. Their partitioning scheme is a bit strange at first glance, but becomes understandable the more you think about the problem of supporting four different operating systems. I use Pascal almost exclusively, with a little DOS BASIC here and there, so I have four small volumes (5.25 inch 35 track capacity equivalent) and three large volumes (about 8 inch diskette capacity) for DOS, and the rest, with minor allocations for ProDos and CP/M, allocated to four Pascal units of 3728 blocks each. Haven't really had a chance to shake the system out yet, but I was favorably impressed by what I have seen so far. You don't get a whole 10 MB for any one operating system, but I have the equivalent of 53+ Pascal diskettes online at one time and that's a whole lot more than I have had before. For $695 I can only cross my fingers and hope that someone doesn't buy them up before my warranty expires. More later if there is interest. -- TJ (with Amazing Grace) The Piper Boeing Computer Services Artificial Intelligence Center ...uw-beaver!ssc-vax!tjj