dalton@gladys.UUCP (David Dalton) (02/14/86)
Does anyone know of an external disk drive available (or under development) for the AT&T UNIX PC 7300? In November's UNIX/World (page 98, new products section) there was a glowing blurb about external disks, RAM cards, I/O boards and tape backup units. The company is CMS Inc. of Santa Ana, CA, 714-549-9111. The new-products blurb said "All are available immediately." This was a complete lie. According to my local dealer it was a market test. I've talked to someone at CMS several times, and they say they're having growing pains. They say they do plan to make expansion units for the UNIX PC but haven't got around to developing it yet. I'd appreciate any information anyone has to share. David Dalton [ihnp4!burl!gladys!dalton]
bruce@graffiti.UUCP (Bruce Jilek) (02/20/86)
> Does anyone know of an external disk drive available (or under > development) for the AT&T UNIX PC 7300? > Alloy has something of that nature if I recall correctly. They apparently have several products out for the 7300, one of which is an external disk (and expansion cabinet?) for the UnixPC. BTW, you don't have to spend megabucks just to get a bigger drive. For instance, I have put a 70MB drive external to the 7300 and it worked fine (fast as lightning actually). If you exhaust all other possibilities, I can set you up with one for under $2500 (probably well under that figure). Caution: the UnixPC can only handle one drive from the regular, unmodified motherboard. I can't recall if Alloy's system has smarts to allow more than one drive or not.
simon@simon_pc.UUCP (Simon Shapiro) (02/22/86)
I talked to Alloy several weeks ago, their response was (like several months ago); no disk expansion, only tape expansion, in several weeks. A support person at AT&T hotline told me they are testing a disk/tape unit. The local salesperson denies it all and all. I would LOVE an additional disk (to hold usenet news for more that 2 days...). Simon