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Article #7728Re: Compaq disks are non-standard?
From: glen sunada f84
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1989 02:13
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1989 02:13
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In article <362@m1.cs.man.ac.uk>, mario@r3.cs.man.ac.uk writes:
> I have been ringing around the micro dealers looking for some
> expansion disk for my Compaq 386/20e (currently has a 42Mb drive,
> supplied with the system), and was horrified when two of the dealers
> told me that the disk interface on Compaqs is non-standard, and that I
> must buy Compaq's own drives. These are *expensive* (over twice the
> price per meg of most PC drives).
>
> Is this common knowledge? (if so, why wasn't I told :-).)
>
> Is there any way out?
>
> TIA for any advice,
Is this common knowledge? Of course not Compaq is out to get you.
(Not quite it showed up in BYTE and PC-WEEK once)
Is there any way out? yes - trash your Compaq controller and drive and get
an aftermarket setup complete with controller.
TIA for any advice, Your welcome
Glen U. Sunada
gs940971@longs.LANCE.ColoState.EDU ARPA Internet (preferred)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!boulder!ccncsu!longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu!gs940971 From: gs940971@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu (glen sunada f84) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Compaq disks are non-standard? Message-ID: <3285@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> Date: 29 Nov 89 02:13:34 GMT References: <362@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> Sender: news@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU Reply-To: gs940971@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu (glen sunada f84) Organization: Colorado State U. Center for Computer Assisted Engineering Lines: 28