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From: ecue@ecsvax.UUCP (Eduardo Cue)
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Subject: Microbotics Hard Disk
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Date: Wed, 13-Aug-86 02:45:31 EDT
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I have now had the Microbotics Hard Disk for about a week. It is only
available to developers right now, but this will change soon. The
price is $1495 and there is a picture of it in AmigaWorld pg. 33.
Now for some facts! It runs only under 1.2 as they said 1.1 had too
many bugs for them support. It hooks up to the parallel port and also
extends the port out. This has not been a problem! I have A_Time clock
card first on the parallel, then the hard disk, and finally the printer.
Everything works fine and I can print and access the hard drive at the
same time. You must still boot the Kickstart and WB from disk. WB
contains the driver (new parallel device,etc.). A copy of WB can be
on the hard disk and after some assigns in the startup-sequence the
WB disk can be put away. It runs everything noticably faster!! (I will
give some times soon). I am very happy with it so far. If anyone has
any questions, post'em>m.
                                  Eddy Cue