Donation For School Wanted

From: PG Manney <manney_at_nwohio.com>
Date: Thu Dec 11 18:42:12 1997

Haven't they made 3 1/2 to 5 1/4 rails for lo, these many years?

I have a box full of WD 103 controller cards somewhere...just not sure
where. I _do_ know where my ISA IDE cards are.

...but where are these supposed to be sent?

manney

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> From: classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu
> To: Manney
> Subject: Re: Donation For School Wanted
> Date: Wednesday, December 10, 1997 8:51 PM
>
> Yes; but then I'd have to ship the controller cards as well. These only
> have the 5 1/2" (or whatever) drivebays; the ones that fit the XTs; etc.
I
> think that they're half-height.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
> <classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
> Date: Thursday, December 11, 1997 1:25 AM
> Subject: Re: Donation For School Wanted
>
>
> >On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, PG Manney wrote:
> >
> >> Sent where?
> >>
> >> Since those are 286's, they could be outfitted with cheapo IDE's such
as
> >> ST-157's and 125's as well...IDE paddle cards are common.
> >>
> >Actually, that is probably the smarter thing to do. Smaller drives,
less
> >shipping weight and less postage. Also newer than MFM/RLL and more
> >readily available, and about equally inexpensive.
> >
> > - don
> >
>
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