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From: bakken@tahoma.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Cheap disk drives
Message-ID: <198@tahoma.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 9-Nov-87 14:57:03 EST
Article-I.D.: tahoma.198
Posted: Mon Nov  9 14:57:03 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 14-Nov-87 12:19:27 EST
References: <73@mithras>
Organization: Boeing Commercial Airplane Co., Seattle, WA
Lines: 17
Keywords: IBM Cheap
Summary: how much faster is SCSI than ST506??

In article <73@mithras>, sims@stsci.EDU (Jim Sims) writes:
> Is there anyone working on a controller to allow the use of IBM type
> disk drives on the Amiga? I've seen the drives VERY cheap -
> 
> [etc]
>
> Granted, its not much storage and it's not as fast as SCSI, but it would
> hold WB, C dev disks, some source, and a few games.
> 
How much faster is SCSI compared with ST506?   And how cheap (relative
term) are 40-80 MB SCSI drives getting?  Thanks for any responses.

-- 
Dave Bakken
Boeing Commercial Airplane Company
uw-beaver!ssc-vax!shuksan!tahoma!bakken
Disclaimer:  These views are my own, not my employers.