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From: plb@omsvax.UUCP (Phil Barrett)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: pc winchesters
Message-ID: <862@omsvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 9-Apr-84 16:55:50 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr  9 16:55:50 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 11-Apr-84 05:22:20 EST
Organization: Intel Corp, Hillsboro, OR
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< eat it, eat it, go and find a bug and beat it!

I'm in the market for winchester add on to my pc (er, IBM-PC)
and I've been looking at larger than 10Mb units. Specifically,
the 23 Mb ones offered by 2 companies:
	a) International Instrumentation Inc
	b) Great Lakes
Both are about $2300 so the price per Mb is about $100.

I haven't seen/heard much about the companies and was wondering
if any one had any comments on them. Specifically:
	a) reliability of the HW and SW
	b) reliability of the vendor
	c) compatability with IBM XT controller.
	d) compatability with the 'older' pc (ie the one
	   with 16 K DRAMS and no wini boot ROM on the motha-board).

Any other good winis that have > 15 Mb capacity at a reasonable
price out there?  I'll be more than happy to summarize to the
net.

The alternative (for me) is to scrounge a wini subsystem together.
I know that Quantum 40Mb (or so) winis can be had for about $1500
from a disti (quantity 1!!) and power supplies/chassis aren't to
expensive but I haven't seen controllers advertised much. Anybody
got any info/experience they're willing to part with?

					Thanks in advance
					Phil Barrett
					Intel Corp
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