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From: Ethan Dicks [mailto:erd_6502@yahoo.com]
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.
In fact, I haven't opened the machine in ages, but you could possibly even run the
external disk as a second drive, given some other slight modifications. I don't
recall whether the UnixPC had any data cable header for a second drive. Probably not,
since it wouldn't have fit inside.
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.
Regards,
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
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