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        The hard part these days is getting non-scuzzy drives anymore.

Actually, the ST-412 disks used by the 1186 are the same as used by the
IBM PC AT, so there are hundreds of vendors.  Look in a magazine like
"Computer Shopper."  You would have to do some fiddling in the Configuration
utility to use a disk not already in the menu of drives Xerox uses.  They are
way cheaper than SCSI disks because they provide so little in the way of a
controller.

	The kind you want were originally made by Control Data, who are
        now a Xerox company...

I think Xerox owns a smaller percentage of Century Data than they used to.

       ...hooking up the Symbolics bricks to the 1186.

As I recall Eric's experiment, he formated the bigger disk for less than
120 Mb because he didn't know if the file system could cope with more.  Since
Xerox later sold a bigger disk, I gather that current software would support a
bigger disk.  I've never tried one.
--Christopher