Ed Roberts - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

3 Jul 1999

The boxes I bought were sold to us by an agent for Pertec, which was
liquidating the MITS stuff.  The FDD and HDD used with Altairs were
Pertec's, since they worked closely with the MITS boys.  Unfortunately their
FDD and HDD were a bit out of date.  They probably saw the 8-bit market as a
place to dispose of the stuff no longer suitable for mini's.

Dick

-----Original Message-----
From: Allison J Parent &lt;allisonp(a)world.std.com&gt;
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
&lt;classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu&gt;
Date: Saturday, July 03, 1999 12:37 PM
Subject: Re: Ed Roberts

...

<Thanks for the info.  As far as I've been able to find out, which is lillt
<more than speculation, I'm afraid, these "MITS Hard Disk Controller"
boxes
<were just prepared for trade shows and demos and were never mass-produced.
<Since I can convert them into something useful without damaging them in an
<way, I'll go ahead and do that.  It would appear there were fewer than hal
<a dozen of these made, and they were never mmass-marketed.
<
<Dick

What about after the Pertec guys bought them, I thought the marketed a
MITS hard disk?  though I think it was a 10mb 14" removable.

Allison