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. This is of interest because Conner, due to its
Compaq relationship was at one time the fastest growing company in the
history of commerce and because IDE interface introduced by Conner went on
to dominate the market.
The following is a list of the known capacity and Compaq PNs for the Conner
HDDs shipped by Compaq - what we are trying to do is fill in the Conner
column. The Conner model numbers should have the form of CP340, CP341,
CP342, CP3102, etc.
Portable III Hard Drives
Size
Type
Inter-leave
Integrated
Min ROM
Spare Part No
Conner Model 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