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WANTED: Small Old Slow WORKING HD and controller

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From: Shag
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1993 22:53
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I seem to be about to become the proud owner of a genuine IBM model something
(model 5155, the person who's giving it to me thinks) "portable" computer.
However, my OS will not run from 2 floppy drives, so, when the IRS sends me
my "don't complain about your taxes for another year" check, I'm going to blow
some of it on a hard drive.  (By the time they send me the return, I'll have
figured out how to get the thing apart, and figured out where I can stick a
hard drive... I hope. :)

I would prefer a 10mb hard drive, although I'll settle for 20mb.  Speed and
interleave and interface don't matter, but it has to be something that'll work
with an original-PC type machine.  8-bit interface, and all that.

I'd like to pick up the drive and card for $50 or less, since I'm on a
shoestring budget, but I could go up to $60, maybe.

It would have to be shipped C.O.D. and I'm in NJ so the closer you are to NJ,
the better.  If you're in southern NJ or Philly, I can come get it in person.

So, if you've got an ancient-but-functional drive taking up precious closet
space, just yell. 

-Shag

-- 
birchall@pilot.njin.net, shag@glia.biostr.washington.edu, birchall@njin.bitnet
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     Happy and informative user of a PPI 14400 FaxModem and GeoWorks Pro
       Editor of the Queensryche E-mail Digest - "Screaming in Digital"
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From: birchall@pilot.njin.net (Shag)
Newsgroups: nj.wanted,biz.comp.hardware
Subject: WANTED: Small Old Slow WORKING HD and controller
Keywords: Masochistic?  Yep
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Date: 14 Feb 93 22:53:56 GMT
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