A tip from Bob Pease - New Braunfels, Texas
August 1986
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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.
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Advanced Concepts Engineering & Consulting
8926 S.W. 17th Street
Boca Raton, Florida 33433
AC 305 482-7302
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