20 Nov
1998
20 Nov
'98
3:52 a.m.
Hi there.
Can anybody tell me what the first external hard drive for a Macintosh was?
I am trying desperately to remember who made it and how much memory it had
and how much it cost. I remember that it was very big and very expensive.
Any insight would be tremendously appreciated...
xoxo van
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20 Nov
20 Nov
4:02 a.m.
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5:50 a.m.
I vaguely remember something called a "MacBottom" (a hard drive above
which one placed a Mac computer)
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7:55 a.m.
Cameron Kaiser wrote:
::Can anybody tell me what the first external hard drive for a Macintosh was?
::I am trying desperately to remember who made it and how much memory it had
::and how much it cost. I remember that it was very big and very expensive.
::Any insight would be tremendously appreciated...
My buddy's Mac Plus had a CMB or some such hard disk (30MB). And it was
*expensive*, yes. But we had *no idea* how we would use *so much* space! ;-)
If you'll excuse me, I have a 170K Commodore disk to archive on my 7.2GB
work hard drive. The Commodore disk is only half full, but the project on it
is completed. Just thought I'd editorialise a bit. :-)
Well, in the tree where I've got a gagload (all that I've found) of
source code, binaries, etc. of material for the TRS-80 1/3/4 line
and the Color Computer line, plus all of the Caldera CP/M material,
I'm using less than 100Mb. And a _lot_ of material is duplicated,
haven't had the time to sort everything out. Oh yeah, all of the
Orchestra 80 and descendents stuff is in that tree, as are all of
the emulators and such for TRS-80 and CoCo (for many machines/OSs)
and several tons of message bases related to all of the above. I
had to leave a Win95 partition and install four distributions of
Linux to justify that 8Gb drive to mi esposa -- of course, most of
the space is naturally being used to hold pornography from the
Internet, since it was being wasted otherwise.
--
Ward Griffiths <mailto:gram@cnct.com> <http://www.cnct.com/home/gram/>
WARNING: The Attorney General has determined that Alcohol, Tobacco,
and Firearms can be hazardous to your health -- and get away with it.
4:30 a.m.
On Fri, 20 Nov 1998, Van Burnham wrote:
Can anybody tell me what the first external hard drive
for a Macintosh was?
I am trying desperately to remember who made it and how much memory it had
and how much it cost. I remember that it was very big and very expensive.
Any insight would be tremendously appreciated...
Wouldn't this have been Apple's own HD20 for the 512k? 20 MB, zero
footprint. Inside was a 3.5" HH Rodime disk with an Apple controller
board. It connected to the Mac's floppy disk port, which had a serial
transfer rate of a little over 500kbit/sec. The disk itself had a >60ms
seek time. It was not fast, but all in all a definite improvement over a
solely floppy based system. IIRC the unit cost over $1000 new in.. 1985?
The HD20 Init also made it possible to use an 800k floppy with the 512k. I
haven't found any real reason the HD20 Init shouldn't work on a 128k
also, but my preliminary tests indicate that it doesn't. The Apple TIL
and other web resources aren't clear on this point.
ok
r.
21 Nov
21 Nov
10:21 a.m.
New subject: Old 386 and 486 pc's
Probably not what everyone here calls "classic" in the purest sense, but I
passed by a garage sale with a lot of computers. I stopped by, and asked
for prices. (I'm mostly looking for cheap stuff to tinker with)
They had a no-name 386 clone, complete with color monitor, in working
condition for $175, and a 486, no monitor, unknown condition (most likely
working though) for $250.
Seemed very high to me, as I've picked up working 8080 PC's and XT's for
under $20. . .
(They did also have an old Mac 128, but I didn't inquire about it, as
those are not exactly rare either)
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22 Nov
22 Nov
4:39 a.m.
New subject: Old 386 and 486 pc's
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1:50 p.m.
New subject: Old 386 and 486 pc's
There are few PC-like machines that IMHO are worth
collecting. The
original IBM PC, XT, AT, portable. The PC3270, XT/370, AT/370, etc. And
some of the early clones, like the first Compaq.
Those and maybe some of the PS/2's as well. (On a related note, anyone
remember Leading Edge computers and how the media (Infoworld particularly)
was falling all over these clones?)
20 Nov
20 Nov
4:37 a.m.
Hi there.
Can anybody tell me what the first external hard drive for a Macintosh was?
I am trying desperately to remember who made it and how much memory it had
and how much it cost. I remember that it was very big and very expensive.
Any insight would be tremendously appreciated...
When my mother started her typesetting business, she had a Corvus networked
hard disk on her Mac 512K. It wasn't AppleTalk, but some kind of proprietary
sharing system off of the modem port (the LaswerWriter I was on the printer
port). It was 20Mb, a pretty ordinary 5.25" mechanism, inside a box that
was nearly as large as a Mac lying down. ISTR the moniker Constellation
associated with the drive. I have it in a box in storage.
-ethan
6:01 a.m.
From: Van Burnham <van(a)wired.com>
Can anybody tell me what the first external hard drive
for a Macintosh was?
I am trying desperately to remember who made it and how much memory it had
and how much it cost. I remember that it was very big and very expensive.
There's an ad on the back cover of the first issue of Macworld
for a hard disk. I think it was 5MB, that the manufacturer was
Davong, and that it cost $1295, but I don't have the magazine in
front of me so take this all with a grain of salt.
eric
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