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From: dave@uwmcsd1.UUCP (Dave Rasmussen)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Sidecar rumors, can anyone confirm?
Message-ID: <1301@uwmcsd1.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 15-Sep-86 23:45:14 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 15 23:45:14 1986
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I downloaded the following from fidonet amiga echomail. Anyone (CBM?)
care to comment on it?

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SUBJ: SIDECAR HARDDISKS

THE LATEST NEWS ON THE SIDECAR MAKES EVEN THE MARCH DATE SEEM OPTIMISTIC, I'M 
AFRAID. ON ONE OF THE LOCAL BBSES I READ A FILE THAT SEEMS TO BE A TRANSCRIPT 
OF A CONFERENCE ON PEOPLELINK, FEATURING JEFF PORTER OF CBM. ACCORDING TO MR. 
PORTER, THE SIDECAR BADLY FAILED THE FCC TESTS. SO BADLY, IN FACT, THAT IT 
WILL NEED TO BE RE-DESIGNED. ALSO, THE SIDECAR WILL NO LONGER HAVE ANY 
PROVISION FOR 2 M OF AMIGA MEMORY
-- EVIDENTLY, ALL YOU WILL GET WILL BE THE PC CLONE CAPABILITY.
-)Read-Orig. +)Read-Reply Q)uit 
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Personally I feel the sidecar could fit my limited needs rather nicely.
Granted I could stick 2 megs in a zorro slot, and a disk controller in a pc
slot. Get something like a 30 meg drive from a bargain basement and partition
no more than 5 meg of it to the pc. Hey, that would make my amiga much more
livable, plus pc compatibility, for less than most other vaporware.

Aside from the sidecar article, someone mentioned CBM was working with
Xebec on a 20 meg subsystem for $~600.

Can anyone confirm or deny any of this?

-- 
The views above are those of my keyboard, not my organization.
Dave Rasmussen c/o Computing Services Division @ U of WI - Milwaukee
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