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From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: New color Sun SPARCstation IPC
Message-ID: <13479@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 27 Jul 90 15:17:16 GMT
References: <1990Jul26.222508.4299@midway.uchicago.edu>
Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax (Dave Haynie)
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Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1990Jul26.222508.4299@midway.uchicago.edu> phd_jacquier@gsbacd.uchicago.edu writes:

>>Commercial prices are $8995 with no hard drive or $9995 with a 207 MB internal 
>>hard drive.  

>One can only put one (or two) 104MB internal drives in it. Otherwise, it's a
>327MB EXTERNAL drive. I was not told of any 207MB internal drive available 
>from SUN, and not for 1000 dollars!!!

The SS1 internal drives are plain old 104MB Quantum drives.  No need to buy 
them from Sun, methinks.  Probably not necessarily from Quantum, either; any
reasonable standard-sized SCSI drive would most likely do.  I think the trick
Sun's using here is one of the new higher density Quantums.  They have a 100MB
or so drive now that's about 1/2 the thickness of the original SS1 drives.  A
200MB drive using the same technology would certainly be no thicker than the
original SS1 drives, so it would still fit in the space set aside for a SCSI
drive on the SS1, and most likely any other machine with space for a 3.5"
SCSI.  Right now, there are SCSI drives up to around 400MB that fit the 3.5"
form factor that have at least been announced.

>Eric


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