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1 total messages Started by Ferrous Steinka Fri, 24 Jul 1992 00:54
WANTED: Small Hard Disk and Controller
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Author: Ferrous Steinka
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 00:54
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I have a friend who is trying to upgrade an old single floppy drive NCR
DOS computer.  He would like to put a hard disk on it.  Unfortunately,
there is only room for a half height drive in the cabinet.  I am guessing
that the power supply will have enough ooompf to spin it up since it was
designed for a dual floppy, anyway I'm hoping.  It is an 8088 based system
and only has 8-bit slots, so the controller needs to be an older type.  I
am unable to help him directly because my spare 40 Meg drive is full height,
and my spare controller is AT class 16-bit.

Does anyone out there have a --> CHEAP <-- 20 or 30 MB drive with 8-bit
controller?  Speed is NOT important, 65 mSec, or 80 mSec would be OK.  MFM
or RLL are both OK.  I would be willing to trade a full height 28 mSec 40M
Micropolis drive and 16-bit controller for an operational 8-bit system.
If you don't want to trade for the 40M and 16-bitter, tell me what you want
for your stuff or what other types of trade stuff you might be interested
in.  How about an IBM AT motherboard w/512K?? :-)

Thanks for your time....

Ferrous Steinka   649-9487  (leave message if not there)
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