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From: baxter@zola.ICS.UCI.EDU (Ira Baxter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: [Was Perstor...] EXPANZ triples HD capacity; vendor? Technology?
Message-ID: <9012281359.aa02212@PARIS.ICS.UCI.EDU>
Date: 28 Dec 90 21:59:30 GMT
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[I tried replying to the originating poster, v334mwv4@UBVMS.BITNET,
but UBVMS cryptically responds that it can't deliver to V334MWV4.
So I have posted my query here in the hopes that V334MWV4 will see it again.
I have recently seen many messages from "gensyms" rather than people;
is this some sort of inside joke or do people really get account names
like that? On purpose?]

In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware you [v334mwv4] write:

>Another card that you may want to try is the EXPANZ card.  These people claim
>to triple or more the size of you hard drive.  This will probably be my next
>purchase.  Its about $150 but the developers tell that there is a problem
>with running programs like Pc Tools Compress.

Can you tell us a) who makes the EXPANZ card, and b) roughly
how they do this?  I didn't think there was time for enough flux
transitions on a track to triple the number of bits.  Does the
driver compress files as it writes them?  How can work when
storing, say, a .ARC file?

I think your answer should be posted.  Enquiring minds want to know.
--
Ira Baxter
IDB
(714) 856-6693  ICS Dept/ UC Irvine, Irvine CA 92717