Drive Type International Memories, Inc. (IMI) 5012H - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

5 May 2011

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  Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 21:36:32 EDT
 From: JHMcCarthy at aol.com
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 Just a historical question.  I have a 10 MB IMI drive that was going  to
 be
 used in the IBM PC-XT back in 1983.  Is IMI still in existence?   Was it
 located in Oregon in 1983?    ---   Jud

 Justin (Jud)  McCarthy
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The IMI 10 MB was never used in the IBM PC/XT; IBM's suppliers were Seagate,
MiniScribe and CMI.  The IMI drive was likely used in clones.

CMI is most famous for its exclusive contract to supply the PC/AT drives
which then almost sunk the AT due to their high apparent failure rate.  If
anyone has a copy of the Core International advertisement offering to build
a breakwater at Boca with trade-ins I'd love a copy.

Only Seagate survived.

Tom 