Re: Finally, I have a Sider HD

[marvinmiller@hotmail.com (Marvin Miller)]

5,000 Disks - 5,000 Disks ?!? 
Cool, how about posting anything new to Asimov??
Pretty Please with Sugar on Top!!

Best!
Marvin

PS> I know what you mean. I just ordered a //GS and it cost 31.00 Add
to that around 73.00 in shipping = 100.00 USD or 160.00 CDN

RAM Card and Accelerator = +/- 200.00 or 320.00 CDN

Now onto Hard Drives, Printer, CD-ROM, Speakers, Disks etc......

My 100.00 Hobby is turning into 500.00 USD or 800.00 CDN Ouch!!

On Sun, 05 Nov 2000 17:40:51 GMT, Michael <michael@apple2world.com>
wrote:

>Cheap hobby?!?!?! :) :)
>
>I've plunked down over $1500 in Apple stuff in the last month, am
>paying an additional $600 for three more apples (very rare, an original
>II, a IIc+, and a IIe2iigs conversion), $750 on a super-suped up //gs
>(oh but its nice)!  And another $2000 on a collection of Apple //gs's
>with about 5000 disks.... my wife is ready to kill me! :)
>
>Mike
>
>
>In article <dLXM5.51105$E85.1348493@news1.sttls1.wa.home.com>,
>  "Ernest" <ernestls@home.com> wrote:
>> I finally found a Sider HD, and it actually works. I found a Xebec
>SASI card
>> in a IIe box about a year ago, and then a few weeks ago, I was given
>several
>> boxes of Apple II items, and inside one of the boxes was the Sider
>user
>> manual and setup disks. Yesterday, I finally received a Sider HD in
>the mail
>> at work. I was really excited but I've worked with enough MFM drives
>to know
>> that they don't like being banged around much, like being shipped
>across the
>> country, so I tried not to get to excited until I had a chance to
>test it.
>> Are SASI drives as delicate as MFM drives?
>>
>> I took it home, plugged everything in, and the drive seemed to be
>dead. The
>> red light didn't even come on. So I opened the Sider box, and
>switched the
>> power plug (why does it have two, anyway?,) plugged everything back
>in, and
>> the drive spun up. I followed the directions in the manual to set it
>up but
>> my IIe kept crashing at different points during the setup. So, I drug
>out a
>> different IIe, plugged everything in, and the setup worked just like
>the
>> manuals said. I guess that my first IIe must have a bad Slot #7.
>>
>> Now, the IIe boots from the hard drive, and the Sider seems to be
>just fine.
>> Yahoo! I've wanted one of these drives ever since I learned of them,
>when I
>> found the Xebec card. I haven't installed any programs on the drive
>yet,
>> other than the Sider setup software -I still need to setup the Pascal
>and
>> CP/M stuff but I'll do that later today.
>>
>> Overall, this has been a very exciting "new find" week for me. On
>Monday, I
>> received an Acorn BBC Master, BBC Master Compact (with expansion disk
>> drive,) Microvitec Cub (color) monitor, Acorn Electron, and the old
>style
>> BBC Data Casette Recorder, and a bunch of software tapes and user
>manuals
>> for these computers.
>>
>> Tuesday, I recieved a bunch of Apple II CP/M software, and setup
>disks.
>>
>> Wednesday, I was given two more mystery boxes of Apple II stuff. I
>haven't
>> even opened up the boxes yet but they're really heavy, so there may
>be some
>> fun things inside (other than just software.)
>>
>> Thursday, I closed the deal on a trade for an Amstrad CPC 464 system,
>with
>> color monitor, books, and a ton of programs on cassette. (I'm hoping
>to
>> receive that package by the end of next week.)
>>
>> Yesterday, I received the Sider drive.
>>
>> This should be a fun weekend for tinkering around with old computers.
>What
>> other hobby can give you so much excitement for so little money? Even
>> gardening costs a fortune if you want to do it right.
>>
>> Ernest
>>
>>
>
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