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Re: Need info about CDC Wren hard disks

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From: Ray Downes
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1989 14:12
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In article <44529@sgi.sgi.com> markb@denali.sgi.com (Mark Bradley) writes:
>In article <442@cs.columbia.edu>, djd@cs.columbia.edu (Daniel Duchamp) writes:
Dan .>> 
Dan .>> Rumor has it that the CDC "Wren" disk is SCSI, is 720MB, and is in the
Dan .>> neighborhood of $3000.  My questions:
Dan .>> 	1) How/where do I order them?  I've struck out looking
Dan .>> 	   through trade mags & The Computer Shopper.
Mark B.>
Mark B.>Try looking for Imprimis drives instead of CDC.  You should be able to
Mark B.>find these at your local distributor, or call Imprimis in Oklahoma City
Mark B.>for the name and # of your local rep.

You might try Seagate, as I believe Seagate bought up, merged with,
whatever, Imprimis.

The marketing documentation list a company name history as

	GE > MPI > CDC > Imprimis > Seagate

though the documentation I get with our 1.2GB Sabre drives is still of
the the CDC flavour.
-- 

Ray Downes, CCI, (716) 482-5000		rutgers!rochester!cci632!rkd
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From: rkd@cci632.UUCP (Ray Downes)
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Subject: Re: Need info about CDC Wren hard disks
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