plb@omsvax.UUCP (Phil Barrett) (04/09/84)
< eat it, eat it, go and find a bug and beat it! I'm in the market for winchester add on to my pc (er, IBM-PC) and I've been looking at larger than 10Mb units. Specifically, the 23 Mb ones offered by 2 companies: a) International Instrumentation Inc b) Great Lakes Both are about $2300 so the price per Mb is about $100. I haven't seen/heard much about the companies and was wondering if any one had any comments on them. Specifically: a) reliability of the HW and SW b) reliability of the vendor c) compatability with IBM XT controller. d) compatability with the 'older' pc (ie the one with 16 K DRAMS and no wini boot ROM on the motha-board). Any other good winis that have > 15 Mb capacity at a reasonable price out there? I'll be more than happy to summarize to the net. The alternative (for me) is to scrounge a wini subsystem together. I know that Quantum 40Mb (or so) winis can be had for about $1500 from a disti (quantity 1!!) and power supplies/chassis aren't to expensive but I haven't seen controllers advertised much. Anybody got any info/experience they're willing to part with? Thanks in advance Phil Barrett Intel Corp tektronix!ogcvax!omsvax!plb hplabs!intelca!omsvax!plb 503-640-7335
spoo@utcsrgv.UUCP (Suk Lee) (04/11/84)
I have heard from a friend who is working in the "clone" business
that WANG is coming out with a plug-in 300 MByte (!!!!!!) hard-disk
somewhere in the near future. Does anyone out there have
knowledge of this?
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