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From: stevek@hpfcmgw.HP.COM (Steve Kauder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: HD in blue PC?
Message-ID: <13520003@hpfcmgw.HP.COM>
Date: 20 Mar 91 17:59:55 GMT
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>In comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc, battle@umbc4.umbc.edu (Rick) writes:
>
>    I hava an original blue PC with 2 360k floppys.  I want to
>    remove one floppy and add a HD, ie. ST225.  will the bios support
>    such a drive?  The date on the bios is 1982.  
>
>    Can anybody shed some light on this?   Thanks.....

My best thoughts?  Get an ST251-1 if you can.  It's 40mb (vs. 20 on
the ST225).  It's 28ms (vs. 65 on the ST225).  Finally, you can get
it mail order for as low as $229 (vs. $179(?) for the ST225).  

You would probably have to partition the ST251 into two logical drives
(unless you get DOS 4.01).

Steve K.

P.S. The ST251-1 has self-parking heads vs. the "you better park
     them manually" heads on the ST225.