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From: jmturn@lmi-angel.UUCP (James Turner)
Newsgroups: net.micro.trs-80,net.micro
Subject: Re: Hard Drive Information Wanted
Message-ID: <19@lmi-angel.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 7-Apr-86 18:50:15 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr  7 18:50:15 1986
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In article <393@ihlpf.UUCP> swd@ihlpf.UUCP (Dawson) writes:
>*** A sacrifice to the line eater ***
>
>I have a Tandy 16B with 768K of memory and two floppy drives. Having worked
>on getting Xenix 3.0 running on floppy (and being somewhat successful) I have
>come to the conclusion that a hard drive would be much better (and lots easier!)
>
>Since Tandy wants ~$1200 for a 15meg drive and controller and ~$2500 for a 35meg
>and controller I am trying to find a cheaper way. I have seen the raw drives
>(like the ones you would put into a pc) in the 35meg range for ~$350.
>
>My question to the net is: Does anyone have information on a good low cost
>hard drive that will work with the machine I have?  Or does anyone know of
>someone that has done something like this and is willing to talk about it?

In the words of the prophet, "You lose". I've owned a 16A for about a year
now, and the only way I've ever been able to add more *Xenix compatible*
drives is thru RS. There are companies that make TRSDOS compatible drives,
up to 70 MB. If anyone ever wants to do an SMD controller for the 16/6000, I'll
be the first on the block to buy one (and then buy a Fujitsu Eagle with the
company discount...)
-- 

James

Helping Computers With Speech Impediments
LISP Machine, Inc.

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