7 Apr
1999
7 Apr
'99
12:04 p.m.
I know the later drives seemed much more compact, about the size of a
floppy drive. Those early ones were enormous though. I've never
opened
one up though, so I wasn't sure what it contained. I suspected some sort
of 8 inch drive.
On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Ward D. Griffiths III wrote:
On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Merle K. Peirce wrote:
M. K. Peirce
Rhode Island Computer Museum, Inc.
215 Shady Lea Road,
North Kingstown, RI 02852
"Casta est qui nemo rogavit."
- Ovid
If I remember right, that 15 meg disk was REALLY
large, although I may be
thinking of an earlier version. Measurements would be about 9" thick by
25-30 deep, nearly as broad. I don't think that'd fit in the case without
a lot of coaxing. I know we have a couple of those old drives
squirrelled away, and they aren't small. Neither is the one for the 6000
You mistake the container for the contents. The external drive unit
was in a larger box than necessary even when it first came out. The
box contained the power supply, the controller board for all four
drives (the card in the computer was basically a bus adapter to give
the 2/12/16/6000 system a Model 3/4 expansion bus) and a full height
5.25" Tandon drive. The drive in the 6000HD (available as an
upgrade for the 12 and later systems) was a half-height unit and
allowed only one secondary drive while the external primaries
allowed three.
--
Ward Griffiths
"the timid die just like the daring; and if you don't take the plunge then
you'll just take the fall" Michael Longcor