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Re: DEC selling businesses: disk drives too?

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From: Del Cecchi
Date: Thu, 12 May 1994 13:30
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In article <1994May11.033452.21665@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com>, bruno@comet.enet.dec.com (Father Gregory) writes:
|> 
|> In article <2qod9d$trk@locutus.rchland.ibm.com>, 
|> cecchi@vnet.ibm.com (Del Cecchi) writes...
|> > 
|> >I didn't think you guys made disk drives, but only bought them from others, put
|> >them in boxes, and resold them.  I believe dec's operation builds actual disk
|> >drives including platters, actuators, servos and all that kind of stuff.  
|> >That's a long way and a whole other line of work than putting some drives in 
|> >a box with a controller and inventing a fancy name for it.  
|> >-- 
|> 
|>      Suffice it to say that you are misinformed.
|> 
|>                                 Greg

Well, I guess I was insufficiently clear.  My post was in followup to a post from a fellow at
Storage Computer Corp, in New Hampshire, who make something called Raid 7.  So
clearly the "you" in my post referred to SCC, who doesn't make drives, and not to
DEC which, of course, does make drives.  In fact the whole point of my post was
to question whether a disk drive operation would be a good fit with SCC, never
mind the size differential, which is considerable.  
  
-- 

Del Cecchi  
cecchi@vnet.ibm.com
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From: cecchi@vnet.ibm.com (Del Cecchi)
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Subject: Re: DEC selling businesses: disk drives too?
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