MITS/Pertec Hard Disks (was Re: Ed Roberts)

From: James Willing <jimw_at_agora.rdrop.com>
Date: Sat Jul 3 14:48:15 1999

At 02:30 PM 07/03/1999 -0400, you wrote:
>
><Thanks for the info. As far as I've been able to find out, which is lillt
><more than speculation, I'm afraid, these "MITS Hard Disk Controller" boxes
><were just prepared for trade shows and demos and were never mass-produced.
><Since I can convert them into something useful without damaging them in an
><way, I'll go ahead and do that. It would appear there were fewer than hal
><a dozen of these made, and they were never mmass-marketed.
><
><Dick
>
>What about after the Pertec guys bought them, I thought the marketed a
>MITS hard disk? though I think it was a 10mb 14" removable.

They did... There is a picture of one taken in an 'Altair Computer Center'
on my web site on the 'Historical Items' page of the 'Virtual Museum'.

Or for the impatient:

http://www.computergarage.org/Garage/MitsBusSys.jpg

-jim

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