6 May
2002
6 May
'02
8:04 p.m.
Well, a new-in-the-box drive with a cartridge was sold at VCF East!
A really slick little drive. I think the only reason it was not more
popuar was because it was far far
deeper than the standard 5 1/4 inch full-height drives. This made
mounting it in any existing chassis
a major pain. It almost had to be designed-in.
Some small company in Massachusettes made a odd little 68000 based Unix
workstation, a rather slick
little box as I recall. Could this be the machine your thinking of?
Do you have any idea of how many of these drives were ever made?
(I'd like to point out that the disk that crashed was not a DMA systems
product.)
Marvin Johnston wrote:
Ah, DMA Systems ... I remember them well as I used to
make some of their
prototype PC Boards for the removeable HDs while they were in
development. I *think* they ran out of venture capital somewhere along
the line and were sold to IIRC Ricoh. I found one of their drives
packaged in a chassis produced by ... can't remember the name but I
think it was a local company ... without any cartridges. One of the
engineers who used to work at DMA Systems still had a cartridge for it
that I have now.
Bob Shannon wrote:
Hey,
Some lucky person, who's email address I lost in a disk crash, bought a
funky ST-506 dual
hard drive, with 5 meg fixed and 5 meg in a removable cartridge
(emulates 2 ST-506 drives).
Alas the drive in question had the older-style power connector, rather
than the late-model 4 pin
Molex we know today.
If you bought this drive, please send me an email off-list with your
address, and I'll send you
an old copy of the manual for the drive with the power connector data,
etc. I just found it while
digging in the workshop!