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From: mauriti@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Frank Hartlep)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Giga-HD from Micropolis
Summary: What's the price?
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Date: 21 Jun 91 17:10:06 GMT
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> Coming soon:

> Micropolis 2112 1 Gig. 3.5" hard disk drive

> 10 ms access time
> Typical power consumption of 12 Watts
> Utilizes SCSI-2 interface
> up to 10 Mbyte/s transfer rate
> Supports command queuing
> 256 Kbyte command buffer/data cache

> Initial shipments to start in 3rd quarter of this year and expected prices
> of about $1/Mbyte in 1992

> No release pricing was given.
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Does anybody know if the company announced the price by now?


Thanks
Frank (mauriti@opal.cs.tu-berlin-de)