Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-lcc!mordor!sri-spam!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!jade!eris!mwm From: mwm@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike (My watch has windows) Meyer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Cheap Hard Disks (the competition) Message-ID: <3372@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: Wed, 29-Apr-87 05:19:37 EDT Article-I.D.: jade.3372 Posted: Wed Apr 29 05:19:37 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 1-May-87 07:18:24 EDT References: <8704181043.AA14428@cogsci.berkeley.edu> <1987Apr21.152123.4753@sq.uucp> <5632@eddie.MIT.EDU> <2503@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> Sender: usenet@jade.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: mwm@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike (My watch has windows) Meyer) Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica Lines: 45 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 >what they call "Infinite Memory." This is a built-in 20 MB Bernoulli >disk drive. List price for the system complete with this drive and >two cartridges is $1999; the cartridges list for $49.95 each and are >about the size of a 5-1/4" floppy (but thicker). > C Ltd. is charging $1600 for their 50 MB hard disk and controller. >Personally, I'd rather have one or two of these Bernoulli items. They >would also be ideal for backups of really large disks (100 MB plus), >since unlike a tape drive the Bernoulli boxes are useful in their own >right. Anyone know who makes the hardware? Is it SCSI? I can't seem to trim much off of this, without major hackery at the text. Not going to bother, and hope that inews is nice to me. I saw that leading edge box. The perfect disk subsystem flashed before my eyes - an over-the-amiga Zorro expansion with a full-height 5 1/4" disk cutout in it. Put one 20Meg HD + one 20Meg bernoulli box in that, each half-height. Heaven. And _expensive_. 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. Possibly a group could arrange to get many of them at a better price. Better yet, a manufacturer could start offering them, thus getting an OEMs price for them. I know that RS Data is going to investigate it, since I mentioned it to them. Perry, any chance of ASDG picking up something like that? 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. BTW, anyone interested in an IBM PC clone (Leading Edge) with an empty bernoulli box slot? :-)