zmacz02@cc.ic.ac.uk (C N S Whitfield) (04/21/89)
I will shortly be acquiring an Onyx C8002 computer system which needs its disk drives replaced. The drives are IMI 7710/20/40, but I have no idea where replacements can be found. If these are unavailable, does anyone know how easy it would be to interface other types of drive? Any help would be much appreicted. Please don't reply to the From address, as it'll bounce. Nigel Whitfield. nigel@cc.ic.ac.uk (Janet) @CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU:nigel@cc.ic.ac.uk (Internet/Bitnet) @ukacrl:nigel@cc.ic.ac.uk (EARN) cernvax!cc.imperial.ac.uk!nigel (UUCP via UKC won't work)
grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) (05/02/89)
In article <ZMACZ02.89Apr19135836@tsun8.cc.ic.ac.uk> zmacz02@cc.ic.ac.uk (C N S Whitfield) writes: > I will shortly be acquiring an Onyx C8002 computer system which needs > its disk drives replaced. > > The drives are IMI 7710/20/40, but I have no idea where replacements > can be found. If these are unavailable, does anyone know how easy it > would be to interface other types of drive? > > Any help would be much appreicted. Please don't reply to the From > address, as it'll bounce. > > Nigel Whitfield. > cernvax!cc.imperial.ac.uk!nigel (UUCP via UKC won't work) I doubt you'll find any IMI drives laying around, though you might find somebody with a junk Onyx system willing to make you a deal. I seem to recall the that company that bought out Onyx (Corvus?) did come out with some kind of adapter to replace the IMI drives with 5.25" drives, so you might want to check in that direction. -- George Robbins - now working for, uucp: {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr but no way officially representing arpa: cbmvax!grr@uunet.uu.net Commodore, Engineering Department fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)