DMA Systems MicroMagnum drive.

From: Marvin Johnston <marvin_at_rain.org>
Date: Tue May 7 00:22:01 2002

Actually as I understand it, one of the major problems with the DMA
Systems drives was reliability, and THAT was the reason IIRC that they
didn't become more popular. In the process of making the drives more
reliable, they ran out of money. I attended the auction where a lot of
DMA equipment and supplies were auctioned off. IIRC, they still had a
small company to support the drives because of the laws regarding
support for consumer electronics.

Bob Shannon wrote:
>
> Well, a new-in-the-box drive with a cartridge was sold at VCF East!
>
> A really slick little drive. I think the only reason it was not more
> popuar was because it was far far
> deeper than the standard 5 1/4 inch full-height drives. This made
> mounting it in any existing chassis
> a major pain. It almost had to be designed-in.
>
> Some small company in Massachusettes made a odd little 68000 based
> Unix workstation, a rather slick
> little box as I recall. Could this be the machine your thinking of?
>
> Do you have any idea of how many of these drives were ever made?
>
> (I'd like to point out that the disk that crashed was not a DMA
> systems product.)
>
> Marvin Johnston wrote:
>
> > Ah, DMA Systems ... I remember them well as I used to make some of
> > their
> > prototype PC Boards for the removeable HDs while they were in
> > development. I *think* they ran out of venture capital somewhere
> > along
> > the line and were sold to IIRC Ricoh. I found one of their drives
> > packaged in a chassis produced by ... can't remember the name but I
> > think it was a local company ... without any cartridges. One of the
> > engineers who used to work at DMA Systems still had a cartridge for
> > it
> > that I have now.
> > Bob Shannon wrote:
> >
> >> Hey,
> >> Some lucky person, who's email address I lost in a disk crash,
> >> bought a
> >> funky ST-506 dual
> >> hard drive, with 5 meg fixed and 5 meg in a removable cartridge
> >> (emulates 2 ST-506 drives).
> >> Alas the drive in question had the older-style power connector,
> >> rather
> >> than the late-model 4 pin
> >> Molex we know today.
> >> If you bought this drive, please send me an email off-list with
> >> your
> >> address, and I'll send you
> >> an old copy of the manual for the drive with the power connector
> >> data,
> >> etc. I just found it while
> >> digging in the workshop!
> >>
Received on Tue May 07 2002 - 00:22:01 BST