1 Dec
2000
1 Dec
'00
7:10 a.m.
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000 18:38:20 +0000 (GMT) Tony Duell
<ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
[Sage II]
Mine has 2 half-height 80 cylinder floppy drives (side by side -- in
other words you couldn't fit a full height drive instead). I believe one
of the DIP switches sets the machine for either 40 or 80 cylinder drives,
so presumably 40 cylinder drives were used in some machines.
I have one like that.
From what I remember, the hard disk model was called a
Sage IV. It was
basically the same machine with a hard disk controller connected to the
expansion bus connectors. The case was taller to accomodate the
full-height winchester (and I assume 1 or 2 floppy drives
alongside it.
I have another machine, called a Stride, like that. I was
told that Sage had to change their name -- don't know why
-- and they changed it to Stride. The Stride is wider than
the Sage II and has a hard disk. Some of the (ex-INMOS)
machines had a QIC-02 tape interface and an internal
quarter-inch tape drive.
--
John Honniball
Email: John.Honniball(a)uwe.ac.uk
University of the West of England