"The Hard Disk You've Been Waiting For" - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

28 Apr 2010

Al wrote:

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 Tim wrote: 
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 >> 10MB for only US$3398 (plus shipping?):

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http://gizmodo.com/5524908/the-hard-disk-youve-been-waiting-for 
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 > Who is the actual maker of the XCOMP physical
drive in the picture? I'm not familiar with the unit. 
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 > Corvus sold the IMI (International Memories
Incorporated) drive in ?1980? and there was the Seagate ST-506 in 1980 and the Shugart
SA1000 in I think 1979. So I'm thinking the XCOMP ad must be the same era. 
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 > Tim. 

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  The earliest copy of the ad appears in the Jul 81
issue of Byte. 

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  Manufacturers of 10meg drives in 1981 included
Miniscribe, RMS, Rodime, Tandon, and TI but 
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  most used similar bezels to the Seagate drives.

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  The drive is interesting because it integrated the
stepper inside with the actuator. 

I didn't know that TI made small hard drives of that era, interesting.

Thinking of old hard drive manufacturers...

Was CMI actually making drives back in 1981? They were in Southern California like XCOMP.
By the time I saw CMI drives (1983? 1984? PC-AT days) they were being made in the far
East in large numbers, and the stepper was on the outside of the housing, but maybe
CMI made some drives domestically before that.

Tim.