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Hello Everyone!

     Earlier this year I received the following piece of mail from a  
friend who had pulled it off of the next news group in late 1991 (I  
think).  Anyway, I was just wondering if anyone had ever heard of this  
before and if so what were the developments?  As I am looking into a new  
hard drive this would seem like a good lead to follow (assuming it  
exists).  You can reply via email or post it if you think others would  
benefit.  Thanks a lot for the help.  

    Alexander (alex@b62150.student.cwru.edu)


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Attention NeXTstation Owners (or want 2 Bs)!  This one's for you...

If you are like me, about to buy (or already own) a NeXTstation
because you don't have some huge pile of cash to fund a loaded
NeXTcube, then check this out!

Frank Hartlep (mauriti@opal.cs.tu-berlin-de) writes:
>> Coming soon:
>
>> Micropolis 2112 1 Gig. 3.5" hard disk drive
>
>> 10 ms access time
>> Typical power consumption of 12 Watts
>> Utilizes SCSI-2 interface
>> up to 10 Mbyte/s transfer rate
>> Supports command queuing
>> 256 Kbyte command buffer/data cache
>
>> Initial shipments to start in 3rd quarter of this year and expected  
prices
>> of about $1/Mbyte in 1992
>
>> No release pricing was given.
>  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>Does anybody know if the company announced the price by now?
>
In my quest for a good drive buy, I came across this drive from 
Micropolis.  After checking into it and comparing against other 
drives, this drive is really something!!!...

According to the data sheet, is should fit into a NeXTstation...

..According to the data sheets this drive is as quiet as the 105 
Quantum (which most seem to think is quiet ~35db).

However, the drive isn't available until the end of this year.  
Micropolis Sales told me that engineering samples for
they start full production and will sell for <$1000 (prob. $999.95).
So for 1/2 the price of getting a 340MB instead of a 105MB, you
get 1GB + 105MB.  You can get the 105 a case, power supply, & 
cable and use it as a portable hard disk (for taking your 
work home [or home to work]).

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