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From: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: Radio Shack personnel
Message-ID: <1514@bucket.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jun 89 06:36:46 GMT
References: <1129@ucf-cs.UCF.EDU>
Reply-To: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
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In article <1129@ucf-cs.UCF.EDU> wordproc@ucf-cs.UCF.EDU (Gang of Three) writes:
<Flipping to the hard drive section, you find a 20MB hard drive 26-1041, a nice
<external drive, white case and all, with information about a Model 1000
<controller directly below it.  Where the Model 4 controller is in the catalog,
<I don't know.  Why would a Model 4 need a controller?  Would the drive not
<work plugged in to the I/O bus on the 4?

The hard drive is just that, a *hard drive* and a power supply. You need a
controller and that plugs into the i/o bus. After all, you can't hook a
floppy up to the i/o bus, you have to hook it up to the floppy controller.
(That external connector *is* on the floppy controller!)

<It's interesting that the means of discovering that there *is* a hard drive
<available for the 4 is so convoluted.  It's not mentioned in the Model 4
<page; seems they would push the hard drive with the computer.

I'm not surprised, they *did* push it along with the computer....
5 years ago. Now all the Model 4 equipment is pretty much restricted to
stock on hand.
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