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Above are scans of Apple's literature which formed the basis of the purchase of the Apple computer in the last week of 1998.
The highlighted parts read:
"Outstanding
flexibility
ï Provides three standard 12-inch PCI slots
for easy expansion of system functionality
ï Includes expansion bays for additional storage devices
Storage
ï Expansion bays for additional storage
devices
Interfaces
ï Three 12-inch PCI expansion slots compatible
with PCI2.1-compliant cards."
However, in mid-1999 we purchased an additional hard-drive to take advantage of the expansion bay. This was a failure. Peter Green of Apple Australia (Frenchs Forest, Sydney) advised that Apple did not have to run any non-Apple hard-drive even if the fault was not with the non-Apple product. Asked what hard-drive Apple manufactured so I could instead install that I was advised there was none!
In the last month of 2001
we finally decided to take advantage of one of the three PCI expansion slots
to install a card to accommodate usb devices.... It was a repeat of 1999.