22 Sep
2009
22 Sep
'09
9:33 a.m.
On 9/22/09, Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com> wrote:
Ethan Dicks wrote:
This was 100% Big Blue. It was the only PC in a DEC shop, bought by
and for the accountants who needed to run DOS-based accounts
receivables and payroll apps.
I'm willing to accept that it's some bizzaro IDE or MCA bus-extension
drive (it does *not* have the usual ESDI cabling arrangement that I'm
used to), but I was told at the time I was looking for an upgrade path
that it was an ESDI drive - perhaps it's some flavor of IDE drive with
an embedded ESDI controller, not an embedded MFM controller.
-ethan
On 9/22/09, Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at
gmail.com> wrote:
The full width edge connector drive was the one on the Mod 70, wasn't
it? I thought the Mod 30-8086 came with only two floppy drives? Wasn't
the Mod 30 hard drive option a 3rd party jobbie? Zane H. Healy wrote:
That sounds familiar. The PS/2 Model 30 (not 286) came with a 3.5"
ESDI drive - with a full-width edge connector.
Wow, there is something I never knew. There were
2.5" ESDI HD's?!?! I
didn't even know there were any smaller than 5.25".
Come to think of it,
didn't the PS/2 Model 70 have a 3.5" ESDI?