[SPARCbook] Report from the field - the Tadpole Drive sleds are a great investment!

[Ken Hansen]

I simply called the 800 (or whatever)phone number and spoke with Diane. It
was a very nice transaction, she took my info, asked me how I wanted it
shipped, and never *once* tried to sell me a $20,000 laptop!

Did you call, or send emails to a non-persoanl account (i.e.
sales at tadpole.com)?

Call them, it was very pleasant...

Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tai Wyatt" <bkrose at bkrose.com>
To: <sparcbook at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 9:41 PM
Subject: RE: [SPARCbook] Report from the field - the Tadpole Drive sleds are
a great investment!


> You mean you actually got a response! I thought they had gone out of
> business.
>
> I tried to order a few items and never received a reply.
>
> Now my feelings are hurt :(
>
> Tai
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sparcbook-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:sparcbook-admin at sunhelp.org]On
> Behalf Of Ken Hansen
> Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 5:14 PM
> To: sparcbook at sunhelp.org
> Subject: [SPARCbook] Report from the field - the Tadpole Drive sleds are
> a great investment!
>
>
> Hello all,
>
> I recently (two weeks ago) ordered a few drive sleds, they came at the end
> of last week, and I wanted to let folks here on the list know what I got,
> and what I think of them.
>
> BTW, the price was $35/each, plus S/H.
>
> First off, of the three sleds I got, two were marked for 810 Meg drives,
one
> was marked 1.2 Gig. These drives appear to be sleds that came back to
> Tadpole because the internal drives failed (a guess)... They had *no*
> external scratches/markings indicating nothing but the best of care. They
> included the little circuit board/ID selector thingie so all you need is
> either a large IDE drive with SCSI/IDE adapter (see
> http://store.powerbook1.com/harddrives.html#scsi ) or a displaced 2.5"
SCSI
> HD, say, like the one left over after you buy one of the above upgrades.
> Installation took all of five minutes, and my SPARCbook 3GX booted off the
> drive just fine!
>
> So what do I think? I think every SAPRCbook owner who thinks they might
ever
> want to upgrade their drive hurry up and get one or more now... These
won't
> be around for ever, and at $35 each you can't beat the price. I know of no
> modern laptops that have such affordable drive sleds as these. The
shipping
> costs for all three was trivial, as I asked Diane to ship UPS ground (I
was
> not in a rush toget the sleds).
>
> My advice:
>
>     If you are going to upgrade your SPARCbook HD, get one now!
>
>     If you are going to sell your SPARCbook, get one know, it will aid in
> selling the unit (IMHO).
>
>     If you are not sure, consider getting one in case, you could always
sell
> it on the list for cost and get you money back (again, IMHO).
>
>     If you haven't yet, upgrade your RAM to 64 Meg - it really makes a
> difference (but beware the recovery partition size on Pre-2.6
installations
> of Solaris!
>
> Hope this helps some fence sitters out there.
>
> Ken
>
>
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