new toy!

<Gee, you are discouraging me, Allison! Out here, ST-351A/Xs have been <common as armpits. Everyone seems to have a couple! Seemed like a <neat/cheap idea. Guess not, though, as you point out below. Arond here they are scarce, I have one but it's model that has been reputed to be unreliable at best. 8bit IDE is an easy interface though. But the interface is less than half the work no matter what. <But again, if you have the TurboRom - and it is readily available - you <have all that. Turborom doesn't know about IDE or hard disk. <Of course, it's still CP/M. We haven't changed that. I have an ST-125N <on my Ampro and it makes a LOT of partitions. Many more than I use, in <fact, but I think I paid $5 for it, so who cares. Or you can use P2dos/novados/suprbdos replacements and run a half gig. I've been the route. I have three s100 crates with hard disk, an Ampro, SB180 and two other in the works so I've been there. FYI my kaypro does have a 2mb ramdisk... much faster than hard drive. Just a same that the kaypro is so slow compared to my other 4mhz systems. Allison