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Re: st506 drives for 3620

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From: Mabry Tyson
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 00:00
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(Two messages didn't get past the filter in two days!  That's about 5 total
now.  There have been 46 junk mail messages that were filtered out since
the start of the year.  Hmmm... should I add "st-506", "SMD", "8mw", "2MW",
"36bit" or "XLs" to my LISPM checking list?   
This one is from Peter Paine (pp@enterprise.net).   Mabry)

>    Anyone out there have any large st-506 drives

It's a doddle to swap the ST-506 interface card with SMD or ESDI.
There are probably more larger drives in these formats about.

>    While I'm here, anyone have an 8mw slb memory
>board for sale? Love to have a couple of those... :)

Never seen one.  2MW yes (1MW = 36bit = 4.5 8bit bytes) = 9 Mbytes
The XLs take 8MW memory boards.

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