Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: $Revision: 1.6.2.16 $; site prism.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!yale!prism!david From: david@prism.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.apple Subject: Re: Re: First Class Periph. Sider query Message-ID: <7200005@prism.UUCP> Date: Thu, 20-Jun-85 15:06:00 EDT Article-I.D.: prism.7200005 Posted: Thu Jun 20 15:06:00 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Jun-85 08:16:36 EDT References: <1471@ecsvax.UUCP> Lines: 49 Nf-ID: #R:ecsvax:-147100:prism:7200005:000:2045 Nf-From: prism!david Jun 20 15:06:00 1985 I bought a Sider last January; to my great disappointment, the first one arrived DOA, so I had to ship it back. The turnaround on the replacement was about two weeks. Since then, its been wonderful, and I urge anyone with an interest to forget about that CD player, VCR, or whatever other conspicuous consumable you've been coveting and get serious about your computer. I can't believe I've lived so long without it. The operating system software, partioning the disk into DOS, ProDOS, Pascal, and CP/M regions is generally excellent -- I've experienced no glitches attributable to its presence. (I didn't configure a usable CP/M partition so I can't vouch for it.) The most serious drawback to the system is there is no documentation of the low-level device control; I have some non-standard operating routines (the DOS version of ORCA/M) which require custom disk drivers (the ProDOS version of ORCA works fine). Supposedly, FCP is working on a technical manual (an OK installation manual comes with the system). The other problem, more-or-less generic to such hard disks, is there is no way to write-protect the drive while debugging to secure against wild code causing spurious writes to the drive. It doesn't seem to be as easy to turn on the drive as a disk ii (what could be), and I seem to have been lucky so far. Now if only someone would come out with a cheap *backup* device, we'd be all set. P. S. FCP just did a mailing to its customer list, with coupons offering a $50.00 kickback to owners who refer new business to them. Find someone who already has a Sider, and work out a deal with them! I have no connection to FCP; just a reasonably satisfied customer. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- David Eyes {cca, datacube, ihnp4, inmet, mit-eddie, wjh12}... Mirror Systems, Inc. ...mirror!prism!david -----------------------------------------------------------------------------