Former Disk Costs (was: 32 bit Macs (was Atari hard ))

From: Allison J Parent <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Sat Jun 6 21:39:19 1998

<How about an original Shugart Technology (now Seagate) ST506 drive,
<first year they came out? Forget the year now, must have been 1980 or

I have a sample from 1980, still working. along the way it was ued to
test a disk controller using NEC d7261 in an early XT. BEfore that it was
on a multibus 8088 system and it was my first drive when I got a teltek
controller. It's still good and I checked reciently it still has the copy
of CP/M I last updated in 84ish before bumping up to a Quantum D540.

I still have a sa400 that was original to the NS* MDS-A controller (1977)
and a later SA400L both working.

<For all you purists who want to keep machines original, what do you do
<when the machine in question isn't retired yet, and there are 20 years
<worth of upgrades installed? I figure that old IMSAI will be running
<for another 5-10 years yet, cranking out the occasional Z80 program.

My NS* is running a soft sector controller I built in '81(765 based)
though the MDS-A is still operational in a netronics box from '79.
Both are still in use and used for assorted development work. 20 and 19
years later!

Allison
Received on Sat Jun 06 1998 - 21:39:19 BST