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From: danny@convex.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Microbotics Hard Disk
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Date: Mon, 18-Aug-86 01:30:00 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 18 01:30:00 1986
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Nf-From: convex.UUCP!danny    Aug 18 00:30:00 1986



The Microbotics folks came to the SCOPE meeting and showed us their hard
disk.  They were running 1.2beta and still had to go through Kickstart/Workbench
to run a workbench program that installed the Hard Disk as dh0: and a Workbench
Icon.  The startup-sequence can then 'execute' another file.  The icons came
up impressively fast but, then, isn't that a feature of 1.2 with icon clumping?

I wouldn't buy a hard-disk that didn't auto-configure with 1.2.  To run a BBS
with the Microbotics, you would need two drives as well, the internal with
Kickstart, the External with the Workbench, and, of course, the hard disk.
The box esentially converts the parallel port into a SCSI and passed out
both a SCSI and a parallel.  Pretty nice but I don't know if this means that
the Microbotics could be used as a gateway for something big.  Also, anybody
know anything about those people who advertised in the back of AmigaWorld about
NFS, Ethernet, and all this other vaporware?!??!?  Now, Microbotics could 
probably do pretty good just selling the SCSI part.  Especially if we could
hook up anything - like any Mac Plus drive, and Sun drive, whatever.
(Ah fantasy!  Vapor-ized fantasy!)

Dan Wallach
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