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Subject: Re: Cheap Hard Disks (the competition)
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Date: Wed, 29-Apr-87 14:04:26 EDT
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In article <3372@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> mwm@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike (My
watch has windows) Meyer) writes:
>In article <2503@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> walton@tybalt.caltech.edu.UUCP
>(Steve Walton) writes:
>>I just saw an advertisement for the Leading Edge PClone equipped with
>>... a built-in 20 MB Bernoulli disk drive. List price for the system
>>two cartridges is $1999; the cartridges list for $49.95 ...
>
>The Bernoulli boxes are made by IOMega. You can get them in either
>ST-506 or SCSI. The retail on a 5 1/4" half-height drive (what's in
>the Leading Edge clone), without enclosure or power supply, is $3000. 
>That's right, $1000 more than the Leading Edge box. So a dream goes
>down the pipe.

A hardware person here at AMETEK tells me that, in fact, the $3000
price is for a complete stand-alone system with an interface to RS-232
(!).  Price for the raw drive (no controller, he didn't know what, if
any interface) is closer to $1500 in quantity 1.  "To dream the
possible dream..."

>Me, I'm going to buy a small SCSI system, and save my pennies towards
>one a Bernoulli box. Maybe by the time I can afford one, they'll have
>fallen to something resaonable.

I'm inclined the same way, but this same hardware person comments that
he would prefer an Alpha (?) VCR tape backup to a Bernoulli box.  300
MB on a standard videotape, and you can watch Tom Petty with it as
well.  He saw a users' group TV show in the midwest where they
broadcast software over the air using one of these boxes.  You just
recorded a few seconds of video and then hooked your VCR to your PC.
Bandwidth is 1 MB/s.

				Steve Walton, guest on tybalt.caltech.edu
			but really ametek!walton@csvax.caltech.edu
				or WALTON@AMETEK.BITNET