Xref: utzoo comp.sys.next:8477 comp.sys.laptops:1340 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!ucsd!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mstar!mstar.morningstar.com!bob From: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next,comp.sys.laptops Subject: Re: Portable NeXT? Message-ID: Date: 10 Oct 90 21:11:52 GMT References: <407@kaos.MATH.UCLA.EDU> <90271.01052434X3TAN@CMUVM.BITNET> <52379@brunix.UUCP> <1990Oct8.055915.862@lighthouse.com> Sender: usenet@MorningStar.COM (USENET Administrator) Reply-To: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) Organization: Morning Star Technologies Lines: 12 In-Reply-To: rock@lighthouse.com's message of 8 Oct 90 05:59:15 GMT In article <1990Oct8.055915.862@lighthouse.com> rock@lighthouse.com writes: (Of course, storage requirements might make the machine more of a luggable.) The Oct 1 1990 issue of Electronic Engineering Times has a brief article on page 16 describing Maxtor's announcement of a 3.5" drive that holds (get this!) 535Mb. It has a 128Kb cache, access times average 12ms for reads and 13ms for writes, and a 6Mb/sec peak transfer rate through synchronous SCSI. The article doesn't mention its weight, but I probably wouldn't mind carrying one through an airport, inside an appropriate machine :-)