68010 (was Re: Mac IIci) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

14 Jan 2002

On January 14, Christopher Smith wrote:
...
   I know that
some model of UNIX PC had room for a full-height MFM drive
 under a hump (most only had room for a half-height).  It was 
 too little,
 too late, but you could drop a lot more than 40Mb inside - maybe 80Mb
 or more!  :-)  
 IIRC, that was the second UnixPC model that was never released.  (7400?)  It was also
supposed to have a color screen.  That said, I suppose it wouldn't be difficult to run
the drive interface cable through a plate in the back of the machine, if you can find a
plate that will fit it, and has a hole for a connector that you can run to an external
drive chassis. 
  Umm, no, that was the 3B1.  It was most definitely released, as I've
had several of them.  I used to run Seagate ST4096 80MB drives in them.

  I'd kill for one with a color display though. :)

...
  On the other hand, there are MFM to SCSI bridges, I
believe, and I wonder whether you could just use one of those and run some 1GB or so disk
on it. 
  Those bridges typically go the other way, to put MFM drives on a
SCSI bus.  I'd imagine it'd be pretty difficult to build one to go in
the other direction.

     -Dave

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Dave McGuire
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