27 Feb
2001
27 Feb
'01
7:16 a.m.
Jerome Fine replies:
Pinnacle called their drive the REO-650 and in a dual configuration it
was called an REO-1300. Since I also have an REO-650 and have
looked inside, I can verify that on the early models, this was the actual
hardware. Obviously, both the S501 and the REO-650 use the
identical media.
I took a look at the Pinnacle drive today and it is a
Pinnacle Micro Sierra Optical Hard Drive with a 1.3gig capacity on
5-1/4" removable media. Supposedly it is a double-sided cartridge
capable of holding 650Mb per side. It appears to be a standard SCSI
drive, but unfortunately I do not have any of the disks for it.
Jeff
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