Philips XT with 768K

From: Russ Blakeman <rhblake_at_bbtel.com>
Date: Mon Aug 17 18:04:01 1998

James L. Rice wrote:

> Tandy used XT IDE on the Tandy 1000 series called a "Smartdrive". i
> think it was ST157A/X for 16/8 bit switchable. There was a controller
> card with onboard bios for controlling the drives.
>
> James
>
> > 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

the Seagate ST05X series controllers were variants of this, in that they auto
sensed certain type drives and set up with them without need to run up the rom
bios program.

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