11 Nov
1997
11 Nov
'97
3:10 p.m.
FW to: ClassicCmp(a)u.washington.edu
CC: cyber(a)prismnet.com
Can anyone give the hard drives and enclosures this fellow has a good
home? The price is certainly right ($10 + shipping). What they are is two
enclosures, each with a pair of Miniscribe 4022's (16 MB each, formatted)
in them, and I've also been led to understand that the enclosures contain a
SCSI-to-MFM bridge board.
Please reply directly to the offerer. Thanks!
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Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 15:28:02 -0600
To: Bruce Lane <kyrrin2(a)wizards.net>
From: Tom Ray <cyber(a)prismnet.com>
Subject: Re: weird SCSI drives
I'll take you up on that offer. I hate to throw things out. Anybody wants
them, they can have both of them for the cost of shipping via USmail plus
$10. if that's too much, let me know. Only thing is, I don't even know if
the drives work.
tom
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Bruce Lane, Sysop, The Dragon's Cave BBS (Fidonet 1:343/272)
(Hamateur: WD6EOS) (E-mail: kyrrin2(a)wizards.net)
http://www.wizards.net/technoid
"Our science can only describe an object, event, or living thing in our own
human terms. It cannot, in any way, define any of them..."
In short, even if their box does contain a
SCSI-to-MFM bridge board,
they're pretty useless for much of anything current. HOWEVER -- do NOT just
throw them out! Sell them (at no more than $20 for the whole thing) to
someone who can give them a good home, or donate them to whatever computer
charity is in your area.
One other alternative is that I'm a member of a mailing list of folks that
collect "classic" (read: more than 10 years old) hardware/software. Those
drives might be just what some collector needs to get that old Osborne or
Altair of theirs going with a good hard drive. I can, if you'd like,
forward a 'for sale/trade' note to the list for you. If anyone's
interested, they'd contact you directly.
Best of luck, no matter what happens.
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Bruce Lane, Sysop, The Dragon's Cave BBS (Fidonet 1:343/272)