close@lunch.wpd.sgi.com (Diane Barlow Close) (08/02/90)
I own an ancient televideo ``luggable'' XT (fully IBM compatible). Earlier this year I removed one of the 360 K drives and put in a 720 K. Now I find the external hard drive is frustrating to move around, being awkward and even heavier than the computer itself. I'd like to throw out the 10 meg. floor-based monster and install a 20 meg hard card (hard drive mounted on internal card) in my XT. What are the pros and cons of doing this? Can anyone recommend a cheap source of these types of drives? E-mail and I'll summarize if there's enough interest, thanks. -- Diane Barlow Close close@lunch.wpd.sgi.com also close@cygnus.com I'm at lunch today. :-)
jwbirdsa@amc-gw.amc.com (James Birdsall) (08/04/90)
I tried to mail this, but it bounced... grrr.
Having done roughly the same thing myself (with a true-blue IBM Portable
PC), here's the troubles I had:
Before you buy anything, take a look at how much room there is around
the slots. This is VERY important. I bought a real Plus Hardcard, which
is much thinner than the average hardcard -- the average hardcard being
an ordinary drive mounted on a card rather than a custom drive such as on
the Plus -- and I still had a very hard time getting it in. It would only
fit at all in one of the slots, and I had to bend one of the internal
supports a bit to do it. It did work, though.
As far as cheap goes, most of the cheap hardcards are the ordinary-drive
type. Plus Hardcards, being custom drives and well-made, are expensive.
You might well do better to buy a case and power supply and transplant
your motherboard, then buy a normal hard drive and controller. Depends
on how adventuresome you are. It's what I ended up doing eventually.
If you want more specifics, just email me.
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