On May 3, 18:19, Tony Duell wrote:
> > Well, seen after the fact when I was called in to 'repair' it...
> >
> > Probably over 15 years ago, NorthStar offered a 14 inch hard drive in
an
> > external cabinet for use with the 'Horizon' microcomputers. It was
> > amusing to watch with the top of the enclosure off as the entire unit
> > was enclosed in a slightly smoked brown Plexiglass 'bubble'.
>
> That description matches a number of 14" hard disks available at that
> time. I still have a Shugart SA4000 (on a PERQ 1) which has a similar
> design of HDA. But that one uses a synchronous mains motor to turn the
> disks (and produces the write clock from a special head on one of the
> disks, thus synchronising the whole thing to the disk rotation).
I have a couple of 14" Fujitsus (a massive 135MB apiece) similar to that.
They're the predecessors to the Eagles, which have heavy cast metal HDA
enclosures. Much more fun to watch (and listen to).
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
Received on Sun May 03 1998 - 15:30:07 BST