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Blast from the past: MacWarehouse page from the 90s (?)
Posted by: Zoidberg
Date: October 22, 2019 02:19PM
[dghmedia.files.wordpress.com]

A little too big to post within the forum, but go take a look. Includes a few removables (Zip, Jaz, EZdrive, SyQuest) as well as the Apple-branded external drives -- only $999 for the 2.2 GB SCSI external.






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Re: Blast from the past: MacWarehouse page from the 90s (?)
Posted by: 3d
Date: October 22, 2019 02:22PM
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Re: Blast from the past: MacWarehouse page from the 90s (?)
Posted by: Rick-o
Date: October 22, 2019 02:24PM
Heh! I can remember driving almost 100 miles to buy a Syquest 5.25 88MB cartridge. smiley-shocked003

What was I thinking?


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Re: Blast from the past: MacWarehouse page from the 90s (?)
Posted by: jonny
Date: October 22, 2019 02:48PM
Don't forget the blonde!

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Re: Blast from the past: MacWarehouse page from the 90s (?)
Posted by: mstudio
Date: October 22, 2019 02:52PM
only $999 for the 2.2 GB SCSI external.

And we gladly paid it thinking it was a deal.

I loved my SyQuests all daisy-chained together.
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Re: Blast from the past: MacWarehouse page from the 90s (?)
Posted by: tronnei
Date: October 22, 2019 02:57PM
Loved that $3 overnight delivery!
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Re: Blast from the past: MacWarehouse page from the 90s (?)
Posted by: mattkime
Date: October 22, 2019 03:09PM
I don't think I ever saw one of those Apple hard drives in person and I think I saw a lot of mac equipment at that point.


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Re: Blast from the past: MacWarehouse page from the 90s (?)
Posted by: freeradical
Date: October 22, 2019 03:19PM
From back when the PC business was a growth industry.
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Re: Blast from the past: MacWarehouse page from the 90s (?)
Posted by: JPK
Date: October 22, 2019 03:24PM
ZFP Hard Drives!

JPK
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Re: Blast from the past: MacWarehouse page from the 90s (?)
Posted by: Zoidberg
Date: October 22, 2019 03:51PM
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jonny
Don't forget the blonde!

[archive.org]

Thanks for posting that; didn't even stop to think I could check Archive.org for catalogs.


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Re: Blast from the past: MacWarehouse page from the 90s (?)
Posted by: RAMd®d
Date: October 22, 2019 04:37PM
I've still got an Apple SCSI drive like the New!! one on p.116.

But mine is more like 4G or 6G, I think.

I want to say 9G, but that may have been a LaCie.

I should dig it up to see exactly what it is. Maybe fire up my 6500 so I can read it.





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Re: Blast from the past: MacWarehouse page from the 90s (?)
Posted by: hal
Date: October 22, 2019 05:28PM
I had that EZ-135 external drive. I LOVED that thing, but they never upgraded beyond the 135mb cartridge. WAY better than the Syquest thingies, but the Zip and Jaz drives did them in even though the EZ135 worked flawlessly.
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Re: Blast from the past: MacWarehouse page from the 90s (?)
Posted by: Lew Zealand
Date: October 22, 2019 05:35PM
I just e-wasted my circa-1995 ~500MB PowerUser SE-base footprint hard drive. It served many years connected to an Apple IIgs via a RamFAST SCSI card.

Note: you can format a ~500MB hard drive as an 800K floppy disk by mistake when making a backup of a game floppy. That was a very very very very very big oops.
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Re: Blast from the past: MacWarehouse page from the 90s (?)
Posted by: ka jowct
Date: October 22, 2019 05:54PM
APS was my go-to supplier of hard drives and enclosures. I still have one or two of them stashed away.


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Re: Blast from the past: MacWarehouse page from the 90s (?)
Posted by: Rick-o
Date: October 22, 2019 05:58PM
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hal
I had that EZ-135 external drive. I LOVED that thing, but they never upgraded beyond the 135mb cartridge. WAY better than the Syquest thingies, but the Zip and Jaz drives did them in even though the EZ135 worked flawlessly.

Wait, what? Wasn't the EZ-135 also a Syquest drive? (Also had one of those, and yes, it was rock solid!)


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Randy: What the @#$%& are you talking about?
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Re: Blast from the past: MacWarehouse page from the 90s (?)
Posted by: JoeH
Date: October 22, 2019 06:15PM
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Zoidberg
[dghmedia.files.wordpress.com]

A little too big to post within the forum, but go take a look. Includes a few removables (Zip, Jaz, EZdrive, SyQuest) as well as the Apple-branded external drives -- only $999 for the 2.2 GB SCSI external.

Since it says the "All New" Iomega Jaz, that would place the page as being from 1995 or early 1996. '95 was when the Jaz was introduced by Iomega
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Re: Blast from the past: MacWarehouse page from the 90s (?)
Posted by: Markintosh
Date: October 22, 2019 07:52PM
It's not so much the hardware there that I admire, it's the experience of getting a fresh catalog with a new order (almost pre-internet) and spending hours perusing all of the possibilities.


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Re: Blast from the past: MacWarehouse page from the 90s (?)
Posted by: N-OS X-tasy!
Date: October 22, 2019 09:05PM
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Re: Blast from the past: MacWarehouse page from the 90s (?)
Posted by: Zoidberg
Date: October 23, 2019 12:07AM
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ka jowct
APS was my go-to supplier of hard drives and enclosures. I still have one or two of them stashed away.

Was just talking about the APS line (drooled over that catalog many a time) and their neat C-connector power supply setup (can't find a photo online; you could have multiple drives stacked but need only a single AC plug as there were stackable power extender/connectors).

Trying to find any imagery of their offerings is challenging. Found a few shots on this page.




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Re: Blast from the past: MacWarehouse page from the 90s (?)
Posted by: Acer
Date: October 23, 2019 09:47AM
In the midst of writing my Master's thesis in 1993, I bought my first Mac. I told my professor, and she handed me my first MacWarehouse catalog. It's a "where were you when they shot JKF" moment.
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Re: Blast from the past: MacWarehouse page from the 90s (?)
Posted by: N-OS X-tasy!
Date: October 24, 2019 12:37AM
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Acer
In the midst of writing my Master's thesis in 1993, I bought my first Mac. I told my professor, and she handed me my first MacWarehouse catalog. It's a "where were you when they shot JKF" moment.

Where I come from, "JKF" refers to J.K. Frimples: [www.santabarbara.com]


It is what it is.



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