pns@cbnews.ATT.COM (Prabhat N. Sahay) (02/28/89)
Recently, I heard that someone is coming out with a removable hard disk drive for Atari ST. These drives are supposed to have the same access time as the fixed hard disk drives and they are very cheap (around $300 for the drive and $10 for the disk). Is this a fact or just plain rumor. Please send me e-mail if you know more about this. I will post a summary of all responses. Thanks in advance, Prabhat Sahay att!cbdkc1!pns
rosenkra@hall.cray.com (Bill Rosenkranz) (02/28/89)
In article <4385@cbnews.ATT.COM> pns@cbnews.ATT.COM (Prabhat N. Sahay) writes:
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= Recently, I heard that someone is coming out with a removable
= hard disk drive for Atari ST. These drives are supposed to have
= the same access time as the fixed hard disk drives and they are
= very cheap (around $300 for the drive and $10 for the disk).
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= Is this a fact or just plain rumor. Please send me e-mail if you
= know more about this. I will post a summary of all responses.
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= Thanks in advance,
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= Prabhat Sahay
= att!cbdkc1!pns
in Byte a few months ago (the NeXT review issue), there was a blurb about
a (supposedly 100%) ST225-compatible 20 MB removable floppy drive which
is supposed to be priced to directly compete with the Seagate hard drive.
the article sez the disks would (be made by Kodak?) cost about $8 each.
if it is in fact plug-compatible with the hard drive, you could theoretically
just open up your SH204 and drop this puppy in. how you get the disks in
and out after you close the cover is another matter *8^). finding the disks
could also provide hours of fun...
-bill
rosenkra@hall.cray.com
(some SH204's use ST225's, right?)Xorg@cup.portal.com (Peter Ted Szymonik) (03/02/89)
I've seen that rumor as well. The company that is currently advertising in START magazine, WestCo has announced a price of $1,300 for their removable system with drive, and interface, but rumor has it that the ICD host adaptor will do the job of the interface at much less cost. Also, this is noweher near the $300 price mentioned and another rumor is that the entire Westco project is now on hold. I would assume that since our cousins in the Mac world can get 45 meg removables at around $1,000 that the $1,300 asked by Westco is a bit much for their 20 meg removables. Of course this may all have nothing to do with the $300 removable - confused? I am, thats why I just swapped my 30meg mech for a 50meg mech instead! :-] Peter Szymonik