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From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: multispeed HD
Message-ID: <1991Jun8.193916.2793@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 8 Jun 91 19:39:16 GMT
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gws@n8emr.uucp (Gary Sanders) writes:

>I reciently picked up a NEC multispeed HD laptop. It included
>a 20mb internal disk.. What interface is this disk? MFM,SCSI,IDE
>Can a larger disk be installed? 

Ha ha ha ha ha...standard interface.. what does that mean??? :-)
My Multispeed HD's hard disk recently died (wouldn't spin up when I
turned it on one day) and found out that NEC no longer makes the
hard disks anymore, and it would have cost $750 to have it shipped back to
NEC and refurbished... It's sort of an IDE-ish drive, in that it has
on-board electronics, but the connector has about 10 extra pins than
the regular 40-pin IDE connector.

I wish you luck and hope that your drive lasts a long time.  

-- 
David Lemson   University of Illinois Computing Services Consultant
Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu         UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson