5 Feb
2004
5 Feb
'04
2:09 p.m.
I've got quite a pile of clone FH drives in
storage; there seemed to be
They are NOT "CLONE" drives!!!!!!!!
two types floating around at the time - those
identical-looking ones
that I've already mentioned, and ones with the same style of black
plastic but a different width handle (wider IIRC).
There are close to a hundred different ones, including at least half a
dozen that have doors similar to the Tandon.
IBM used an "INDUSTRY STANDARD" drive (Tandon TM100-2) and put their logo
on the faceplate. It was already in common use on thousands of other
computers. (Yes, Tandon DID have over a thousand customers by that
point.)
LATER, IBM began manufacturing drives and/or having them made for them.
Calling them "clone" drives is like referring to all tires other than
Bridgestone on a Japanese car as being "clone tires".
But,...
It isn't unreasonable to want to get some of the ones with the IBM
faceplate logo, for restoration.