10 Nov
2005
10 Nov
'05
6:38 p.m.
On 11/10/2005 at 10:01 AM Peter C. Wallace wrote:
At one time Ampex marketed something called Megastore
that was bulk core
memory used as a disk replacement (large latency (for core) but high
bandwidth)
Apparently, Ampex used the term "Megastore" for a bunch of different
things. Googling around, I found this information (in German):
http://zxspectrum.de/Literatur/Zeitschriften/mc/mc_03_85_Inhalt/mc0385S102/m
c0385s102.html
Apparently, the PC Megastore was a 20 MB hard drive packaged with a backup
streamer. I suspect that the 50-pin header might be SASI, but that's just
a guess.
Cheers,
Chuck