Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!whuxl!whuxlm!akgua!gatech!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!kdale@vaihingen-emh.arpa From: kdale@vaihingen-emh.arpa (Keith Dale) Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: Help: IBMPC portable: Can I add a hard disk? Message-ID: <3339@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Mon, 18-Nov-85 11:38:29 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.3339 Posted: Mon Nov 18 11:38:29 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 20-Nov-85 01:07:48 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Lines: 18 I researched this very question recently and this is what I found. You can either go with an internal 10 or 20 MB hard disk with a short card controller (Qubie makes one of each that are pretty good - their old 20 MB drive was noisy, but has been fixed), or you can go with a regular long slotted hard drive. The way you can sqeeze another long card in the PPC is by replacing the display adapter with a short card (like the Hercules Color Card - this works very well in the PPC). Then again, you could add a regular second floppy drive, replace the dispay adapter with a Herc Color Card and add that new HardCard, 10MB *and* controller on one long card. With that configuration you would have 2 floppies and a 10MB hard drive. As far as the actual idea of putting a hard drive in the PPC, just understand that they must be treated very gently from then on. Even the Compaq can't be tossed around too much! Have fun and good luck... Keith *** No ties to anyone but my wife! ***