| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name
 | Date | Lines | 
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| 5.1 | Sources | NUHAVN::SORKIN |  | Fri May 02 1986 11:52 | 2 | 
|  |       Computer Town was closing them out for $198.......also some
    activity on Usenet about building one from $100 drive yourself.
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| 5.2 | $212 | APOLLO::BERKSON |  | Tue May 27 1986 12:45 | 2 | 
|  |       Club Computer in Harvard Square is selling them for $212.
    
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| 5.3 | Correction - 5.2 | APOLLO::BERKSON |  | Wed May 28 1986 09:10 | 2 | 
|  |     RE: 5.2 - Sorry about that  - Club Computer has them for $221 for
    students and $250 for other people. Get out your old IDs.
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| 5.4 | how about a 5-1/4 ?? | MTBLUE::PFISTER_ROB |  | Tue Jun 16 1987 11:04 | 13 | 
|  |     I have assisted people in building 5-1/4" drives from IBM-pc drives,
    but didn't have the $$ to build on myself at the time. 
     
    if you can get a good deal on a 96-tpi ibm-pc drive, you can build
    the unit for the cost of a power supply ($5.00?) and some jelly-bean
    parts, like AND gates, and the connectors.  The total cost of the
    unit I helped build was about $50.  Worked with transformer fine,
    and as an 880K amiga-dos disk
    
    I could scrounge up the plans if anyone is interested, I plan on
    building one eventually.
    
    -Robb
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| 5.5 |  | BAGELS::BRANNON | Dave Brannon | Tue Jun 16 1987 17:19 | 7 | 
|  |     re: plans, i'm interested...
    
    any particular brands & model numbers you recommend/don't recommend?
    (shopping for a good deal, wondering if all 96-tpi drives are of
     equal quality)
    
    -dave
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| 5.6 | Yet Another External Drive Question. | DNEAST::SEELEY_BOB |  | Fri Feb 24 1989 16:00 | 11 | 
|  |     I thought that I'd revive this old note.  I'm in the process of
    purchasing a new external 3 1/2 drive for my A500.  I have seen
    the approximate price range through recent magazine ads.
    My question is: are there any drives that I should avoid?
    I realize that drain on the A500's supply must be minimal, 
    and it would be nice to have a passthrough, but are there any 
    real dogs out there?  I'd like to by the least expensive one 
    I could put my hands on, if it were reliable.  Any opinions or 
    experiences in the Great Collective Mind of the notesfile?
    
    
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