[geeks] Local Computer Shop window display

[Corda Albert J DLVA]

I had a drive way back in my S100 days that looked
identical to that one.  If it's the same thing, then it
is an 18" single-platter SASI drive. My memory is fuzzy, but
I seem to remember that it was around ~15 Mb (Huge for those days!)

The one I had came with a companion rack-mounted SASI controller
that had a flat ribbon umbilical cable to an S100 host adaptor card.

It was a definite trip when you powered it up. It sounded like
a 747 warming up, and you could watch the heads seek
through the plexiglass drive case.

I regret ever having sold it, but at the time a new 5.25" ST-221
with an mfm controller seemed the way to go.

Oh well...

-al-
-acorda at 1bigred.com



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Hebel [mailto:nimitz at owc.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 12:31 PM
> To: Bill Bradford
> Subject: Re[2]: [geeks] Local Computer Shop window display
> 
> 
> BB> On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 10:05:00AM -0800, Rick Hamell wrote:
> >> Most computer shops these days have display's full of new 
> hardware that
> >> they're selling... not this place.
> >> http://1nova.com/~hamellr/computers/display
> 
> BB> I want that -8E.  *sigh*
> 
> I'm wondering more what the big drive behind it is from.  Anybody?
> 
> 
> Mike Hebel                        mailto:nimitz at owc.net
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