Friday, June 9, 2000

Friday, June 09, 2000 I've got a 4GB ide hard drive sitting on a shelf at home so I decided to do a little research and see what kind of ide pci cards are available for the Macintosh. What I discovered was fairly disappointing. While PC users can pick up a fairly powerful Promise card for $28 at buy.com right now, Mac users are stuck with the relatively pricey TurboMax UltraDMA ATA/66 which is going for $145 at OWC at the moment. Rumor had it last year that a company was developing the necessary firmware for Promise cards, but nothing seems to have come out that yet. Most likely I'll still end up getting the TurboMax (unless a cheaper alternative appears) simply because the price/capacity/performance combination of IDE/ATA/UltraDMA completely blows SCSI out of the water these days from what I'm seeing at OWC. 3:28:00 PM     Friday, June 09, 2000 Last night after work I had around four hours to kill before I had to go coach a summer league basketball game so I decided to run out to Barnes & Noble to see if I could find a couple books I was looking for. Driving on I-90 during the 5 PM hour can be a little treacherous, especially during a rainy day like yesterday, but I managed to survive long enough to reach my destination. Unfortunately they didn't seem to have either one of the books I was looking for. In the end that didn't stop me from finding a couple other books that should suffice for the time being, but I was still somewhat disappointed. 10:38:00 AM

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