14 Oct
2009
14 Oct
'09
2:16 p.m.
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 4:55 PM, <arcarlini at iee.org> wrote:
The DEC RD54 (Maxtor XT-2190) was 159MB or so. I once
had a brace of
them on a PC.
I had a PCs or two with a Micropolis 1325, but I'd already converted
over to Adaptec SCSI controllers and embedded SCSI drives (frequently
surplus/castoffs from a Sun environment) rather than go above about
60MB on MFM/ST412. I didn't get an IDE drive for anything until after
1992 - it was all small MFM and large(er) SCSI for my sub-32-bit
environments. Any "large" disks ended up going on VAXen and PDP-11s.
The idea of a PC with "a brace" of FH 5.25" drives on it is somewhat
daunting. The closest thing I can imagine to it is a fully-loaded
BA123, and I've never *seen* one of those above two or three spindles.
-ethan