5 Feb
2004
5 Feb
'04
8:52 p.m.
On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 17:27:55 -0800
"Zane H. Healy" <healyzh(a)aracnet.com> wrote:
Dunno about the MFM boxes, but we bought the RK05 replacement
WBC3000's for the 11/45s at my workplace about 5 years ago.
Try $3500, each.
They consist of a single interface board and an internal SCSI
removable drive. Initially came with Syquests which proceeded
to die on a regular basis. Wilson then replaced them with
Zip100's and they've been fairly reliable since.
A single Zip cart in our units is formatted to emulate 22 rk05's,
well below the Zip's capacity.
The drawback is that they are switch addressable, i.e: the wilson
box is seen as a single entity on the RK11 chain and only the
selected partition is accessible.
Whew. Long-winded response, sorry. I was bored.
-nick o
http://www.wilsonlabs.com/disk-drive-replacement.htm
I see Wilson Labs, who used to sell disk and drive testers,
is in the disk replacement biz now.
Anyone have any idea how much their WBC 512 is? A MFM replacement
disk would be cool!
Zane