20 Nov
2016
20 Nov
'16
3:05 p.m.
On 11/19/16 11:14 PM, jim stephens wrote:
The disk drives look a lot like Priam SMD drives. Two
to a tray, 8" form factor. About 150 or 300mb IIRC. They had a
very nice open frame 60mb and 90mb drive which i have a specimen of somewhere as well
that proceeded the 8" product. I
don't think they survived to make any later products.
Their 8" drives were available with a couple of different interfaces
Some companies building Multibus and Qbus systems sold them. The
Multibus systems generally used Ciprico Rimfire controllers. They also
made a 80mb disk system for the Lisa called the DataTower.
Priam bought Vertex and survived into the 5" era
The priam 519 is equivalent to the Maxtor 2190