Chicago trs-80s

From: Merle K. Peirce <at258_at_osfn.org>
Date: Wed Apr 7 12:04:27 1999

I know the later drives seemed much more compact, about the size of a
floppy drive. Those early ones were enormous though. I've never
opened
one up though, so I wasn't sure what it contained. I suspected some sort
of 8 inch drive.

On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Ward D. Griffiths III wrote:

> On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Merle K. Peirce wrote:
>
> > If I remember right, that 15 meg disk was REALLY large, although I may be
> > thinking of an earlier version. Measurements would be about 9" thick by
> > 25-30 deep, nearly as broad. I don't think that'd fit in the case without
> > a lot of coaxing. I know we have a couple of those old drives
> > squirrelled away, and they aren't small. Neither is the one for the 6000
>
> You mistake the container for the contents. The external drive unit
> was in a larger box than necessary even when it first came out. The
> box contained the power supply, the controller board for all four
> drives (the card in the computer was basically a bus adapter to give
> the 2/12/16/6000 system a Model 3/4 expansion bus) and a full height
> 5.25" Tandon drive. The drive in the 6000HD (available as an
> upgrade for the 12 and later systems) was a half-height unit and
> allowed only one secondary drive while the external primaries
> allowed three.
> --
> Ward Griffiths
> "the timid die just like the daring; and if you don't take the plunge then
> you'll just take the fall" Michael Longcor
>
>

M. K. Peirce
Rhode Island Computer Museum, Inc.
215 Shady Lea Road,
North Kingstown, RI 02852

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