[comp.os.cpm] VT180 "Robin" help needed on hard disk possibilities...

AGNEW@RUBY.VCU.EDU (Brainwave Surfer) (02/10/90)

Dear Netlanders...
  I've been trying to figure out how to jam a hard disk onto my VT180 "Robin".
Have anyone out "there" any idea how to do that?  Even a 5 meg drive would
be very nice!
  Ps, the OS is CP/M V2.2

                            Virtually, Jim Agnew.


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SLSW2@cc.usu.edu (Roger Ivie) (02/13/90)

In article <DF315E09921F200F8F@Gems.VCU.EDU>, AGNEW@RUBY.VCU.EDU (Brainwave Surfer) writes:
> Dear Netlanders...
>   I've been trying to figure out how to jam a hard disk onto my VT180 "Robin".
> Have anyone out "there" any idea how to do that?  Even a 5 meg drive would
> be very nice!

Try talking to Emerald Microware [ (503)641-8088 ]. They make a hard disk
adapter that fits under the Z80; you lift your Z80 out, plug it into this
board, and then plug the board where your Z80 goes. It talks to a Western
Digital 1002-05, which they also sell (WD doesn't even admit this thing
ever existed anymore; it seems that if it doesn't plug into a PC they're
not interested). They sell software to drive the thing.

They advertise in Micro Cornucopia if you want to look up an ad.

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