24 May
1999
24 May
'99
3:40 p.m.
On Mon, 24 May 1999, Pete Turnbull wrote:
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Yes, Seagate made quite a lot of them at one time. So did Teac, NEC and
WD. The first 3.5" ones were Rodimes, though. The hard drive system
As did Fuji, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Kalok, Kyocera, Lapine, Microscience,=20
Miniscribe, NEC, Syquest, Tandon, and others that I have skipped over.
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On May 24, 17:38, Max Eskin wrote:
> Subject: Re: Space, the next frontier
> On Mon, 24 May 1999, Pete Turnbull wrote:
> >Having just spent several days obtaining a suitable 20MB ST506-interfa=
ce
> >hard drive, I completely concur with Tony.
The 3.5" versions seem to =
be
particularly hard to come by around here.
There have been 3.5" ST-506 interface hard drives? sitting on the BBC Micro beside me has one: it's a
home-designed system
which has an Adaptec ACB4000 controller (which is SCSI, but
SASI-compatible), and a BBC 1MHz Bus to SASI adapter, and presently has a=
n
NEC 40MB 3.5" drive in it. Originally it had one
of the first 10MB 3.5"
Rodime RO352 drives (which is now in a modified DEC TK50Z box, pretending
to be an RD51). I still have the receipts somewhere; I think the drive
cost about =A3400 in the mid-80s.
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Pete=09=09=09=09=09=09Peter Turnbull
=09=09=09=09=09=09Dept. of Computer Science
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