What is this? AST 88 Mb drive

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Thu Mar 26 21:27:00 1998

Jason,

  That sounds like it except the lever and slot are below the disk slot.
Any idea where I can get disks for it and what they cost?

  Thanks,
   Joe

At 06:58 PM 3/26/98 +0000, you wrote:
>> 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 - 21:27:00 GMT