17 Aug
1998
17 Aug
'98
12:18 p.m.
On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, James L. Rice wrote:
donm(a)cts.com
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Don Maslin - Keeper of the Dina-SIG CP/M System Disk Archives
Chairman, Dina-SIG of the San Diego Computer Society
Clinging tenaciously to the trailing edge of technology.
Sysop - Elephant's Graveyard (CP/M) Z-Node 9 - 619-454-8412
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see old system support at http://www.psyber.com/~tcj
visit the "Unofficial" CP/M Web site at http://cdl.uta.edu/cpm
with Mirror at http://www.mathcs.emory.edu/~cfs/cpm
Tandy used XT IDE on the Tandy 1000 series called a
"Smartdrive". i
think it was ST157A/X for 16/8 bit switchable. There was a controller
card with onboard bios for controlling the drives.
James
Seagate's listing does not reflect an ST157A/X, so unless it was
something OEM'd for Tandy, it would more likely have been an ST325A/X,
ST351A/X, or ST352A/X.
- don
Wow. I
didn't know that anybody besides Commodore ever used XT IDE. I have
a couple of WD-98???-X drives, one in a Commodore Colt that I use for