8 Aug
2011
8 Aug
'11
11:06 a.m.
On Mon, 8 Aug 2011, William Donzelli wrote:
Who ever used more than 2 floppies on a PC anyway? Or
more than 2 hard
disks (back then, before PC based servers)?
2 360K 5.25"
720K (96tpi) 5.25" ("quad")
micropolis 100tpi
3"
3.25"
2 720K 3.5", REPLACED with 2 1.4M 3.5"
2 1.2M 5.25"
Epson 67.5 TPI 3.5"
8" (Flagstaff, Vista, Maynard, etc.)
2.8M (I used MicroSoulutions "Backpack" parallel port)
floptical (SCSI)
LS120
ZIP
(and also a few obscure others)
MOST people could combine the 720K and the 1.2M 5.25" (such as Teac 55GF),
but sometimes it just made more sense to have the individual models. And
SOME people didn't need all of those types.
Using MORE THAN four drives was awkward (cabling switches, etc.), so
"multitasking" meant turning on numerous machines as part of the normal
"boot" process. LOTS of power strips.
I had most of the prototype external cases and power supplies from
Elcompco.
Stock power supply was not happy trying to power 2 4096s, so some machines
had extra power supplies.