Kushall.henr@XEROX.ARPA (07/11/85)
Ralph, The following suppliers of rigid disk drives are listed in the spring 84 DEC Rainbow handbook. CORVUS SYSTEMS 2029 O'Toole Ave. San Jose, CA 95131 (408) 946-7700 External winchester drives 5.9 M, 12.1 M, 18.4 M UNIVATION INC 1037 North Fair Oaks Ave. Sunnyvale, CA 94089 (408) 745-0180 5 M removable hard disk with 64-320K RAM 11 M internal hard disk with 64-320 K RAM QUCES INC. 3 Quces Drive Metuchen NJ 08840 (800) 631-5944 (201) 548-2135 10, 16, 20, 42, 57, and 84 M Hard disk subsystems The June 85 Digital Review had an article on rigid disk drives for DEC computers, Rainbow to VAX. Of the vendors listed only digital and Univation were listed for the Rainbow. The following Univation list prices were given. DHD205R-64 5.25 inch 20 MB fixed 5 MB removable 85 msec access time 625KB/Sec List price $3995 DHD20-64 5.25 inch 20.7 MB fixed 85 msec access time 625KB/Sec List price $2750 DHD11-64 5.25 inch 11 MB fixed 80 msec access time 625KB/Sec List price $2160 I hope you find this info useful, if you had an IBM PC you can get a 10 MB drivesetup for about $600 and 20 MB for about $ 800. A while back Advanced Computer Products had a close on the DEC 5 MB Rainbow upgrade for $750, but none are left. Also please note unless you have thre Rainbow 100B you will have to replace the power supply as the 100A power supply can not supply a rigid. Sad note, you can buy a Tandy 1200 with 10 Meg Hard Disk($1995) for less than the cost of any of the above! ED ------------------------------------------------------------