23 Aug
2018
23 Aug
'18
12:32 p.m.
On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 12:51 PM, Tom Gardner <t.gardner at computer.org>
wrote:
It was the SA200 a 2/3rds height (51 mm) 5?-inch FDD
at $118 in quantities
of 5,000 or more. It was sold in 1982 but got killed by the true ?
heights which Shugart OEMed from Matsushita.
Hi Tom,
The SA200 came later, and just from the photographs I can tell that it was
a much better-engineered drive than the one I'm referring to.
http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102677924
http://engineeringhistory.tumblr.com/post/92146695534/shugarts-sa200-525-mi…
The drives I saw in 1980 were prototypes or engineering samples, and didn't
look at all like the SA200.