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From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Sider Disk Drive
Message-ID: <215@neoucom.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 20-Jun-86 18:36:57 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 20 18:36:57 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 21-Jun-86 10:14:34 EDT
Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
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Keywords: comments on sider drive

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To: polish@lexington.columbia.edu

	I have a sider in my lab.  It seems like an o.k. piece of
equipment.  We don't use it too often, so I can't say for sure how
reliable it is.  I took the box apart, and saw the name Xebec on
the control card.  The setup and install program is pretty easy to
use, and even a neophyte could probably get the drive up and
running.

	About the only thing I don't like about it is that the
motor makes a pretty loud high frequency buzz while running.  I
have heard the buzz in another sider drive elsewhre.  I think that
it is basic to the design.  I think the drive uses a brush type DC
motor for the spindle, which causes the buzz.  Our drive is about 2
years old, so this could have been changed by now.

	All in all, the sider is not too bad a deal for the money.
It is also handy that CP/M, DOS/ProDOS, and Pascal can all coexist
on the same drive (in separate partitions).

Bill Mayhew
N. E. Ohio Univ.'s College of Med
(216) 325-2511
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