9 Jan
2003
9 Jan
'03
8:37 p.m.
At 06:45 10/01/2003, you wrote:
Adrian Vickers said:
It's magnificent, isn't it? It's a hard-disk, and it's damn pround of
itself (hence the size & noise, I think).
OK, "pic" would be a better
description....
There's a picture of the whole thing here:
http://helmies.org.uk/images/MatorShark.jpg
Whoa! That's one lovely piece of machinery! 
Is the 710 yours ?
Yep. I was going to test it with an 8032, but I had the 710's keyboard out
for a repair (note the different coloured "V" key), so I figured I may as
well try it on that & check out the k/b at the same time. Both, I'm happy
to report, seem to work perfectly :)
I've always thought that Commore PET/CBM series had
the weirdest
unknown peripherals ever.
I suppose because it was one of the first machines to both be widely
available, and which had a reasonably standard IEEE port (I'm not sure what
the Apple had in the way of interfaces). I suspect that if Commodore had
ever got around to a "proper" RS232 interface, the number of bizzare
peripherals would have shot up again.
When the Finnish importer (only one at the time) went
bankrupt in 1991
I had a chance to go to the clearance auction. I got a few similar
machines (8296 and 200) and other stuff. The dealer briefly let
me see a orange/black box, supposedly made in Hungary (or Bulgaria),
5 MB hardrive for CBM-machines. I didn't inquire further and I'm
still a bit ticked off about it.
That would have been interesting, but I suppose back in '91, the PET's
weren't sufficiently old to be interesting, they were just superceded.
Anyone ever heard of Hydra ?
The name rings faint bells, but darned if I can remember why.
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Cheers, Ade.
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