rreiner@yunexus.YorkU.CA (Richard Reiner) (03/07/91)
A clone-brand laptop I'm considering buying has a Prairie 120 2" hard disk. This worries me a bit, as I've never heard of Prairie, and the disk specs, as published in the machine's spec sheet and confirmed with Coretest, are very unusual: 23 ms average seek (rather quick, especially for a laptop of this class, namely el-cheapo), but 85 Kb/sec data transfer rate (very very slow). So: does anybody know anythng about Prairie, and more particularly about this disk? Thanks, --richard
mo@messy.bellcore.com (Michael O'Dell) (03/07/91)
*Note* in the spirit of full and fair disclosure, I am a friend of one of the VC types who funded Prairie Tech. =Mike
barr@frog.UUCP (Chris Barr) (03/09/91)
In article <21828@yunexus.YorkU.CA>, rreiner@yunexus.YorkU.CA (Richard Reiner) writes: > A clone-brand laptop I'm considering buying has a Prairie 120 2" hard > disk... > > So: does anybody know anythng about Prairie, and more particularly > about this disk? 5 or more years ago a company sold 'Prairie Pack' batteries in nylon carrying bags, sized something like a short cigarette carton. These may have powered regular PCs and Apples... hazy memory. I have asked about them several times, in recent years, to no avail.
Norbert.Zacharias@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Norbert Zacharias) (03/12/91)
barr@frog.UUCP (Chris Barr) writes: >In article <21828@yunexus.YorkU.CA>, rreiner@yunexus.YorkU.CA (Richard Reiner) writes: >> A clone-brand laptop I'm considering buying has a Prairie 120 2" hard >> disk... >> >> So: does anybody know anythng about Prairie, and more particularly >> about this disk? >5 or more years ago a company sold 'Prairie Pack' batteries in nylon >carrying bags, sized something like a short cigarette carton. >These may have powered regular PCs and Apples... hazy memory. >I have asked about them several times, in recent years, to no avail. I saw this company on the CBit last year. Their name is Prairie Tec. i'll go to CBit end of the week if u want some info from them let me know Norbert -- ============================================================================= Norbert Zacharias Norbert.Zacharias@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de FB Physik 148964@DOLUNI1.bitnet Carl-von-Ossietzky-Universitaet Tel. 0049-441-7983527 Was Du nicht willst das man Dir tu, das will auch nicht was willst denn Du? Heinz Erhard =============================================================================