Compaq Portable III HDDs - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

30 Sep 2009

Hi:

I'm a newbie to the group and a long time volunteer at the Computer History
Museum, Mt View CA.  We'd like to know the models of Conner HDDs shipped in
the Compaq Portable IIIs.  The Conner model numbers should have the form of
CP340, CP341, CP342, CP3102, etc.  The following is a list of the known
capacity and Compaq PNs for the Conner HDDs shipped by Compaq:

Portable III Hard Drives

Size

Type

Inter-leave

Integrated

Min ROM

Spare Part No

20MB

2

1:01

Y

K

Not known

20MB

2

3:01

Y

K

107357-001

40MB

17

3:01

Y

K

110358-001

40MB3

224

1:01

Y

R.2

Not known

40MB3

43

1:01

Y

F

114106-001

84MB3

27

1:01

Y

K

Not known

100MB3

45

1:01

Y

K

142365-0011

120MB3,5

45

1:01

Y

K

161832-0012

1 Except Europe. 

2 Europe only. 

3 Requires MS-DOS 3.2 or later.

4 Drive type 17 if ROM earlier than R.2 is used. 

5 Formats to 100 MB.

Extracted from http://oldcomputers.net/compaqiii.pdf  and other sources

Just the Conner model number would be good, but I would appreciate as much
information as u can provide, such as the corresponding Compaq part number
(if marked), a photo of the Conner technical data plate, and some
information on the date of manufacture of the drive and system (such as
photos of pcbs showing date lot codes).

Tom Gardner