18 Mar
2009
18 Mar
'09
9:10 p.m.
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From: "Richard" <legalize at xmission.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 12:01 AM
Subject: Re: Looking for an 8 bit HD controller
In article <67679285CDC4497086F944815057D8CF at game>,
"Teo Zenios" <teoz at neo.rr.com> writes:
Hardcards are nice if they still work (the drives are dying). Since I
collect old Macs I tend to have a small stack of smallish HDs that I removed
to install something bigger.
My XT is actually a NEC V20 system (Kaypro made MC-10 system I think it is),
and it has 2 internal 5.25" HH bays for HDs along with the 2 exposed 5.25"
360K HH drives. Currently I have an old 80MB 5.25" SCSI HD waiting for a
bootable SCSI controller (I have a TMC 850 with no ROM).
I should probably just live with dual floppies
but I like HDs in anything
that can use them.
In original PC and XT machines, I like the "hard card" drive mounted
directly on the controller card. It takes up two slots, but can be
easier than having to fuss with a drive bay.
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