Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site callan.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!tektronix!hplabs!sdcrdcf!trwrb!scgvaxd!wlbr!callan!tim From: tim@callan.UUCP (Tim Smith) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Re: Double sided drives? Message-ID: <1061@callan.UUCP> Date: Mon, 5-Aug-85 20:57:24 EDT Article-I.D.: callan.1061 Posted: Mon Aug 5 20:57:24 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Aug-85 01:35:37 EDT References: <33@unc.UUCP> <1060@callan.UUCP> <2623@randvax.UUCP> Organization: Callan Data Systems, Westlake Village, CA Lines: 25 > > > Does anyone have any knowledge of the Haba double-sided drive > > > described in the PC Network ad on p.188 of the August MacWorld? > > > > ...I called Haba, and they said that the 800k drive is > > NOT yet available, they are still choosing a vendor for the drives... > > -- > > Tim Smith > > Well, I dunno. My brother bought an "800k" Haba disk from Telasoft > In Phoenix about a month ago. Several interesting things: My call was about two months ago, I guess, so obviously they are got them since then. However, PC Network was definitely advertising them before Haba was selling them. > o The eject mechanism in the drive will send your disk into low Earth > orbit if you let it. This can be great if you fall alseep during a download! The download finishes, the Mac ejects the disk, the disk lands on your face, and you wake up! Assuming you can get MacTerminal to eject the correct disk... -- Tim Smith ihnp4!{cithep,wlbr!callan}!tim