Re: Miniscribe SCSI-1 drive question.

["Ernest" <ernestls@home.com>]

Quadrajet1 wrote in message
<20000608223501.08852.00002221@ng-cf1.aol.com>...
>>The Miniscribe 8425S drives that have the 20 sticker on them originally
>>shipped
>>as the internal hard disk inside the Macintosh SE. I have a lot of these
>>laying
>>around-all came from mac se's
>
>   Yeah, that's what I was thinking too.   Could have been used in the
external
>HD20SC, but I have seen quite a few 5 1/4" form factor drives in those.  As
>well as the first Mac II.  I think the SE/30 even came with as little as a
40
>Meg at first.  The Miniscribe was not a bad drive.  Certainly not as crappy
as
>the Rodime or Sony drives.  The Sony 20 Meg had a recall for the longest
time.
>
>Raymond
>Raymond Flowers
>quadrajet1@aol.com

Yeah, it's sure a big ol' clunky tank of a hard drive though. It must weigh
2 or 3 pounds. However, it scores high on my list of cool sounding HD's,
especially on start-up. There's just "something" nice about the way that
Apple hardware sounds. Even the floppy drives sound better.

E