johnl@haddock.UUCP (03/15/84)
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haddock!johnl Mar 13 00:16:00 1984
Has anybody out there investigated putting big disks on a PC? By big, I
mean SMD sized, say 60 - 300 megabytes. A bunch of 40MB disks might do
the trick, but we've had little luck locating suppliers who can actually
ship real working 40MB drives anytime soon.
Software support isn't a big issue, since we'd be running them under PC/IX
and would write our own drivers. (The PC/IX manual includes a fairly
informative section on writing device drivers, by the way.) We do need
reasonable hardware documentation.
I saw ads for PC compatible SMD controllers sometime ago, but can't find
any references any more. Anybody have one? Any leads? T.I.A., as always.
John Levine, INTERACTIVE Systems, 441 Stuart St, Boston 02116; (617) 247-1155
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PS: In case you were wondering, we'd like to be able to keep an entire set
of PC/IX sources and sccs on line on a PC for integration and testing. I
realize it'd take a week to recompile it all.