The Hyperdrive FX-20
Here’s an excerpt from a 1986 MacTech review of the hard drive that my family bought for our Mac Plus:
“After using the new Hyperdrive FX-20 for a couple of weeks, I can tell all of you that I am very pleased with it. If the case design doesn’t offend you (about half my friends like it and the other half can’t decide) then this is one heck of a drive.
It retails for $1195.00, and can be had for about $1000.00 at your local store. It is about the same price as many of the other 20 meg drives, but I would suggest this one since GCC is a manufacturer that will be around to support you when the others are gone.”
$1195 for a 20mb hard drive? What a deal!
November 24th, 2006 at 10:42 pm EST
The Hyperdrive FX-20!!!!! I remember that thing! It let us put both 400K disks worth of DARK CASTLE on one drive and we could play without even swapping floppies!!!
November 25th, 2006 at 12:31 am EST
Dark Castle. Oh how I wish I could play that right now. Hmm … it might actually be possible!
November 25th, 2006 at 1:02 am EST
you CAN play DC in full color! check your email!
November 25th, 2006 at 5:01 am EST
The only thing that i remember about that computer is that Dad and I payed for it!
November 25th, 2006 at 11:42 am EST
on the same page you linked to is a pretty funny section on Mac rumors… the guy got really excited about how FAST the new macs were gonna be: “the soon-to-be-expandables that we’ve all been drooling about…. 68020 at 16 (!!!) Mhz”
November 9th, 2007 at 10:39 pm EST
I have one running right now beside me on a fully original Mac Plus. It has Mac OS 6.0.3. and 19459KB free.
November 10th, 2007 at 9:28 am EST
Don’t even tell me you have Dark Castle running on it too… That would make me insanely jealous!