Philips XT with 768K

From: Jason Willgruber <roblwill_at_usaor.net>
Date: Tue Aug 18 13:52:41 1998

> Wow. I didn't know that anybody besides Commodore ever used XT IDE. I
have
> a couple of WD-98???-X drives, one in a Commodore Colt that I use for ROM
> burning. IIRC, WD made 20Mb and 40Mb XT IDE before moving on to AT IDE.
> Commodore even designed-in an XT-IDE port on their A2091 and A590 disk
> controllers for the A2000 and A500, respectively. The A590 did ship with
> 20Mb XT drives; the A2091 did not have the 40 pin connector soldered in
place.
> It does work; I have retrofitted one. They are slow.
>
> And, yes, the ST251/251-1 are both MFM. I use them on ancient DEC
hardware.
>
> -ethan
>
>
I believe the Tandy 1000 TL/2 and TL/3 (not sure about the TL/2) also had a
built-on XT-IDE controller. The TL that I have has a HardCard.
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         -Jason
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Received on Tue Aug 18 1998 - 13:52:41 BST