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Re: Recommendations for TP701 HD Upgrade?
I recently spent some time investigating hard disk drives for the TP701cs.
PS Solutions (972) 783-6996 only sell caddies - US$60. I spoke to Scott,
who was very helpful. However, I did not buy because I wanted a complete
drive.
Microsense (California), 1-800-544-4252 (also 1-619-632-8623). I bought a
1080MB drive with caddy for US$599. The first two drives would not format
correctly, the third drive they fomatted for me and it works fine. Mark,
their technical person, (at 1-808-826-4105) could not have been more helpful.
Tenex (Toronto, Canada), (416)-291-5894. A 1080MB Toshiba drive cost
Can$386 and caddy Can$79. I bought this in the midst of my receiving the
drives from Microsense. The drive formatted and works fine.
I also found out who NOT to deal with - Kulin Enterprises Ltd.,
1-800-304-0036 (or (416)-674-8230). At the beginning of my search for a
hard drive I bought from them an IBM drive. It turned out to be the wrong
model for the 701. It took months to get my money back, they claimed to
have mailed my cheque twice, and then put a stop order on it when I did
not receive it.
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John Starkey, Department of Earth Sciences,
University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 3B7
tel: (519) 661 3185 fax: (519) 661 3198 e-mail: jstarkey@julian.uwo.ca