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From: jwbirdsa@amc-gw.amc.com (James Birdsall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Hard Card Question
Keywords: Hardcards in luggables
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Date: 3 Aug 90 20:27:08 GMT
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Reply-To: jwbirdsa@europa.amc.com (James Birdsall)
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   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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