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From: cmcmanis@sun.uucp (Chuck McManis)
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Subject: Re: Sidecar (Actually cheap HardDisk)
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Date: Mon, 15-Sep-86 12:44:02 EDT
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Thanks Richard for the reply, for those of you whom this may be
new to this discussion, use your news program to find the 
original. The meat of the messages have been my assertion :

*>Personally, I seriously doubt there will be really cheap hard disks
*>for the amiga until their is a really cheap SCSI board. Maybe the
*>guys at Allegra can pull it off.

And Richard's reply which included :

*> ... If pressured the folks at C Ltd. will probably offer the SCSI 
*> board alone for a semi-reasonable cost...

This is what *must* be done for *cheap* hard disks to become available
now. You see it is like this, I can go to a swap meet here in the 
valley and pick up a 10 or 20 Meg drive, SCSI adapter, enclosure and
power supply for less than  $400. Now these may or may not be primo
parts but chances are good that they all work. If someone offered
the host adapter part for around $200 (after all it is only the 
autoconfig PAL's the NCR chip and a decoder/latch for the easiest
implementation) I could have a hard disk for $600. That would be
cheap. 


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