Philips XT with 768K

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Mon Aug 17 19:18:09 1998

On Mon, 17 Aug 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

Seagate's listing does not reflect an ST157A/X, so unless it was
something OEM'd for Tandy, it would more likely have been an ST325A/X,
ST351A/X, or ST352A/X.
                                                 - don
 
> > 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
>

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