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From: farren@hoptoad.uucp (Mike Farren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: WORM Drives
Message-ID: <2109@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: Sat, 9-May-87 09:08:19 EDT
Article-I.D.: hoptoad.2109
Posted: Sat May  9 09:08:19 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 10-May-87 04:50:32 EDT
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Reply-To: farren@hoptoad.UUCP (Mike Farren)
Organization: Nebula Consultants in San Francisco
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In article <0244526P@NAVPGS> 4526P@NAVPGS.BITNET (LT Scott A. Norton, USN) writes:
>     
>An article in the May 4 issue of Electronic Engineering Times
>announces that Information Storage Inc.  has cut the price of its
>240 Mbtye WORM disk drive.  $2,595 gets you a 5.5 inch
>full-height drive that fits in an IBM-PC or clone.  An external
>version of the drive is $200 more, and SCSI interface is another
>$100.  The disks themselves are $125 for 240-Mbyte, double sided
>platters.
>     
>The IBM-PC version uses a disk operating system that makes the
>drive look like a regular disk drive to MS-DOS.  Or, you can pay
>$500 and get Xenix.

The IBM drive is $2000-$2400 and the media is $65 per disk, making it
a bit cheaper than the ISI device.  Also, the IBM drive is used as a
network device by MS-DOS in order to get around the MS-DOS 32 Meg.
disk limitation.

I believe the IBM drives are being made by Mitsubishi, and might be
available cheaper from them a little bit down the road.



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