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From: johnbu@tektronix.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Wanted: Info on hard disks for PC
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Date: Tue, 31-Jan-84 09:57:30 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 31 09:57:30 1984
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Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR
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My goal is to add a hard disk (10 Mbyte or so) to an old version (64K
system unit) PC.  In my brief amount of shopping, several questions come
to mind:

1) The prices I've seen used to range from 2,000 to 3,500.  Why the extreme
	variation?  Is there really that much differencr in quality?

2) I've recently seen one (I can't remember the manufacturer right now) 
	for 995 for 10 Mbyte.  Does this significant price drop represent
	an associated quality or feature drop?

3) The ideal case would be to get one that would install in the PC system
	unit.  I've heard that one can buy IBM's souped up power supply,
	a controller board, and the drive and make it all work.  Does it
	really work?  What price should I expect?, etc, etc.

Any comments would be greatly appreciated. 

				Thanks,
					John Burgess,
					Tektronix, Inc