On Mon, 24 May 1999, Pete Turnbull wrote:
> On May 24, 17:38, Max Eskin wrote:
> > Subject: Re: Space, the next frontier
> > On Mon, 24 May 1999, Pete Turnbull wrote:
> > >Having just spent several days obtaining a suitable 20MB ST506-interfa=
ce
> > >hard drive, I completely concur with Tony. The 3.5" versions seem to =
be
> > >particularly hard to come by around here.
> >
> > There have been 3.5" ST-506 interface hard drives?
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> Yes, Seagate made quite a lot of them at one time. So did Teac, NEC and
> WD. The first 3.5" ones were Rodimes, though. The hard drive system
As did Fuji, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Kalok, Kyocera, Lapine, Microscience,=20
Miniscribe, NEC, Syquest, Tandon, and others that I have skipped over.
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> sitting on the BBC Micro beside me has one: it's a home-designed system
> which has an Adaptec ACB4000 controller (which is SCSI, but
> SASI-compatible), and a BBC 1MHz Bus to SASI adapter, and presently has a=
n
> NEC 40MB 3.5" drive in it. Originally it had one of the first 10MB 3.5"
> Rodime RO352 drives (which is now in a modified DEC TK50Z box, pretending
> to be an RD51). I still have the receipts somewhere; I think the drive
> cost about =A3400 in the mid-80s.
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> Pete=09=09=09=09=09=09Peter Turnbull
> =09=09=09=09=09=09Dept. of Computer Science
> =09=09=09=09=09=09University of York
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