tm@polari.UUCP (Toshi Morita) (07/24/90)
limonce@pilot.njin.net (Tom Limoncelli) writes: >. Seagate admitted they don't know anything about drives that are >large and high-speed so they bought Impress. Quantum always made big, >fast hard drives. Insiders claim that when they stamp the "Seagate" >sticker over the "Impress" label you can hear the drive cry, scream, >and it lowers its head in shame. Is "Impress" a new hard drive manufacturer, or did someone misspell "Impris" ? I can't recall seeing any "Impress" hard drives... tm@polari.UUCP
stan@teroach.UUCP (Stan Fisher) (07/24/90)
In article <2229@polari.UUCP> tm@polari.UUCP (Toshi Morita) writes: > >limonce@pilot.njin.net (Tom Limoncelli) writes: > >>. Seagate admitted they don't know anything about drives that are >>large and high-speed so they bought Impress. Quantum always made big, >>fast hard drives. Insiders claim that when they stamp the "Seagate" >>sticker over the "Impress" label you can hear the drive cry, scream, >>and it lowers its head in shame. > >Is "Impress" a new hard drive manufacturer, or did someone misspell "Impris" ? >I can't recall seeing any "Impress" hard drives... >tm@polari.UUCP Would you belive Imprimis? I believe that's the name you're looking for. Previously known as CDC. Makers of Wren and Swift series drives, etc. Yup.. Seagate bought 'em... What's this world coming to. Stan Fisher - stan@teroach.phx.mcd.mot.com - asuvax!mcdphx!teroach!stan Motorola Microcomputer Division, Tempe, Arizona - Voice (602) 438-3228 Call our User Group BBS "M.E.C.C.A." running SkyLine 1.31 @ (602) 893-0804
markv@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (07/24/90)
>>large and high-speed so they bought Impress. Quantum always made big, >>fast hard drives. Insiders claim that when they stamp the "Seagate" >>sticker over the "Impress" label you can hear the drive cry, scream, >>and it lowers its head in shame. > > Is "Impress" a new hard drive manufacturer, or did someone misspell "Impris"? > I can't recall seeing any "Impress" hard drives... Our misspelling poster was referring to "Imprimis", Control Data's drive subsidiary that was (unfortunatly in my opinion) sold to Seagate. Imprimis is a mainframe class drive manufacture. Their products include the Wren and Sabre line of drives which go right up to 2 GB of capacity and an 8" media that is a rackmount form factor. A completely different level of hardware than we deal with for our micros (although many of the Wren drives have SCSI versions, the bulk of their drives are OEM stuff for major manufacturers of drive subsystems and tend to have SMD, MCSP, or similar interfaces). They also have a reputation for being execellent drives in terms of speed, capacity, and reliability. Let us hope Seagate doesn't affect this. > tm@polari.UUCP -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mark Gooderum Only... \ Good Cheer !!! Academic Computing Services /// \___________________________ University of Kansas /// /| __ _ Bix: markgood \\\ /// /__| |\/| | | _ /_\ makes it Bitnet: MARKV@UKANVAX \/\/ / | | | | |__| / \ possible... Internet: markv@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~