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Subject: Re: Want info on MicroBotics ram/drives
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Date: Thu, 7-Aug-86 11:39:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  7 11:39:00 1986
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Nf-From: ico.UUCP!farmer    Aug  7 09:39:00 1986


About Microbotics:  I called, and got a real friendly, reasonable person who
seemed to know his stuff.  He told me the 20M drive was $1495.00, and was as
fast, or faster than anything else out there.  That price doesn't seem too
bad to me.  Also, it passes the parallel port out, and has another port for
anything else that uses SCSI.  He told me that their memory board with 512K
memory, and sockets for another 512K was $495.00 and that a piggy back board
with just sockets for 1 or 2 MEG was $99.95 (Thought he said it was a 2MEG
board, but then he said it would give you a total of 2MEG aditional?)
They also have a separate board with a clock, and circitry to do parity
checking on their ram board with an aditional 256k chip per bank of ram.
Didn't get the price on that one.  He claimed that the board had no wait
states, and passed the buss.

I too would love to hear a review of this product.
By the way, it was Commodore who gave me their phone number.

DISCLAIMER:
I have no connectioin with this company, but will probably buy their product
when I get a bit more money.
David Farmer