A tip from Bob Pease - New Braunfels, Texas August 1986 ================================================================= For some months I had been considering an add-on hard disk unit. Trouble was I'd never been inside a computer and being elderly one tends to attack new and FOREIGN projects very reluctantly. The ad in PROFILES for the Advanced Concepts Engineering & Consulting Co's. "Mini-Winnie" really appealed to me. Two phones calls and a call back spanning ten days of agonizing and I felt almost ready to leap. My Kaypro dealer long gone but did know an electrical engineer who had been inside an Apple. Tony, of Advanced Concepts, had me convinced I wouldn't need any help but backup is the name of the computer game! Ten days - in came the unit; sleek, compact and with excellent directions and documentation. An evening of study (my worry wart idea) and the next morning off came the lid. Twenty minutes and the Kaypro 2X test ran perfectly. Installation and nothing but questions to answer followed as well as formatting and dividing of the 20 meg. format into (my choice) four drives. Ten minutes and it was running, thirty more and I had one drive loaded. Doubt if a total of two hours total elapsed time and I had nearly 10 meg. of programs and data operating in what seems like 2/3 to 1/2 of the time the unit requires normally. Best of all - for a quickie - I can boot and run my original A+B drives and totally ignore the Hard Disk System for a quick five minute job. I've never met the guys at Advanced Concepts but this I can tell you; they have a fine and simple to install hard disk unit that works AS THEY ADVERTISE and their support is available evenings and weekends which is appealing from standpoint of work hours and telephone rates. ================================================================= Advanced Concepts Engineering & Consulting 8926 S.W. 17th Street Boca Raton, Florida 33433 AC 305 482-7302 =================================================================