[rescue] AT&T 3b1 Starlan software

[Curtis H. Wilbar Jr.]

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>> Yeah, you could choose one or two single-sided floppy drives.  Woo!  You
>> didn't get a choice of fixed discs until DOS 2.0, IIRC, and I still
>> don't know if the original PC was capable of -booting- from a hard drive
>> without a BIOS replacement.
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>That wasn't even the worst of it.  When they did have drives, they had
>a known problem with some of them, which could cause data loss.  They
>refused to beat on the supplier or use a different one because having
>a good relationship with the supplier was more important.

Would you be reffering to CMI (Computer Memory Incorporated) hard drives.
They were pretty crappy... high failure rate.  I have a few working
10 or 20 giggers around :-)

-- Curt

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>--Patrick
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