What is this? AST 88 Mb drive

From: jpero_at_cgo.wave.ca <(jpero_at_cgo.wave.ca)>
Date: Thu Mar 26 12:58:22 1998

> SyQuest?
Can you see if you have a lever above the disk slot besides a button?
Use of this drive goes like this: Insert the disk, move the lever to
lock it in, to eject, poke that button, the lever will pop free, move
it to push the cartidge out.

When mounting or unmounting during after locking or ejecting the
light slowly speeds up to rapid blinking then out, ready. :)

That's SyQuest, nice HD type technology long as it's working!!

Jason D.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Joe [SMTP:rigdonj_at_intellistar.net]
> > Sent: Thursday, March 26, 1998 10:28 AM
> > To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
> > Subject: What is this? AST 88 Mb drive
> >
> > I picked up an external drive in a bunch of computer parts. Can anyone
> > identify it? It looks like a Bernoulli or Syquest drive but is marked "AST
> > Technologies" and "88 MB C". It's the same size as a Bernoulli
> > Transportable drive and the cartridge looks like it is *almost* the same
> > size as a Bernoulli 90 Mb (but it's not!) It has two 50 pin SCSI
> > connectors
> > on the back along with a socket for a power cord and two AC outlets. It
> > included a SCSI cable that has a male DB-25 connctor on the other end.
> > What kind of cartridge does this take? Is it worth bothering with?
> >
> > Joe
>
>
email: jpero_at_cgo.wave.ca
Pero, Jason D.
Received on Thu Mar 26 1998 - 12:58:22 GMT