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From: burton@mitisft.Convergent.COM (Philip Burton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Old HD drives
Summary: Shugart
Keywords: oldies but goodies
Message-ID: <581@mitisft.Convergent.COM>
Date: 15 Mar 89 21:04:20 GMT
References: <2358@lll-lcc.UUCP> <2816@rti.UUCP>
Organization: Convergent Technologies, San Jose, CA
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In article <2816@rti.UUCP>, bcw@rti.UUCP (Bruce Wright) writes:
> In article <2358@lll-lcc.UUCP>, rzh@lll-lcc.UUCP (Roger Hanscom) writes:
> > Does anyone out there remember the ST-506 (5M from
> > Seagate)??  Are they reliable...junk...???  The reason
> > I ask is I've been seeing them in surplus stores around
> > here for $49.95.  I've been thinking about trying to
> > use one on an older machine (I'd rather not spend big
> > $$$ on it!).  What about an ST-605(or4??).  I saw a
> > **BUNCH** of them in a surplus store labelled 6M.  I
> > never heard of that number before.  Is there such a
> > beast??
> 
> 
> I have never heard of an ST605 or ST604.  It's possible that they are
> drives that never saw much use or that it's a typo for an ST506.
> 
> 
> 					Bruce C. Wright


No, ST605 wasn't really a type.  It should have been SA 604 or SA 606.  
These were drives from Shugart Associates (not Seagate Technologies) that
had 6.6 and 10 MB capacities, respectively.  They were brought to market at
least a year after Seagate's drives, and didn't do well at all because Seagate
had already sewn up th market, AND because they didn't work very well.

Old drives are so cheap it is not worth bothering with old Shugarts.  Now the
8" floppies from Shugart, they were good drives .....



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Phil Burton
Convergent Technologies
[was Shugart Associates, 1979-1972]