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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Wedge
Message-ID: <1375@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca>
Date: 8 Apr 90 22:32:02 GMT
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In <716@mpirbn.UUCP>, p554mve@mpirbn.UUCP (Michael van Elst) writes:
>In article <1365@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes:
>>>How about a 2000?
>>
>>There is no Wedge for the 2000. I did one, once, as a prototype, but the
>>arrival of low cost controllers from a few manufacturers pretty much killed the
>>idea from a commercial point of view. [ ... ]
>
>You'd look around in Germany. I think half of the A2000 harddisk run
>with a wedge-type controller. It's just cheaper and easier to build.
>Maybe since 8-10 weeks, the A2000 owners convert to SCSI controllers but
>the only thing before was this 'wedge'.
>I still remember the trouble when there was a short of the OMTI5527
>controllers that were used for the 'wedge'.

I always thought that there would be a decent market for one, but I sure wasn't
going to try to market it myself, and the folks that would market it just
didn't seem interested. At the time, the 2090 was just out, and it cost $329
Cdn, or about $265 US, and gave the user the capability of running 2 ST506
drives and SCSI as well. It went about twice the speed of the Wedge, minimum.

Oh well.

-larry

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