| Title: | AMIGA NOTES |
| Notice: | Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2 |
| Moderator: | HYDRA::MOORE |
| Created: | Sat Apr 26 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Feb 05 1992 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 5378 |
| Total number of notes: | 38326 |
Note 25.1 is the only reply on Hard disk. The Atarist was demo'd on Saturday
Computer chronicles with a Winchester disk. On the possibility that a side-box,
side-car and other "a-sides" won't sport affordable large fast storage, I'm
starting this note.
Consider this from Computer Design, June 15, 1986
Hard Drive - Model 6000E from Miniscribe (replaces 6000)
Spec - 80 to 170 Mbytes in < 30ms with single board controller and low
power requirements.
Data - 10 Mbits per second
Density - 10,416-Mbyte/track
Format - ESDI user supplied custom formats
Cost $1,000 to $1,300 (Quantities needed unknown)
Amiga World (new) reviews the only Hard Disk available to-date as being
expensive (>$1,500) and hard to support. What would one expect a reasonable
20-30 Meg Drive for the Amiga to cost?
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 54.1 | Miniscribe Update | COIN::WARD | Wed Jul 02 1986 13:36 | 17 | |
ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING TIMES - June 16, 1986
"Miniscribe Spins out 170-Mbyte 5-1/2'', 25-Mbyte 3-1/2'' Drives"
" The 3-1/2-inch product is a 25.5-Mbyte(unformatted)SCSI(small
computer systems interface) drive."
Access time - 68ms
average power - 12.5 W.
priced at $375 in volumes of 2,500
Guessimate - At a "Radio Shack like" markup of 100% with power supply
and driver software, a 20 Mb. drive should come in under $1000 or
as low as $500.
Note 54.0 update - the 170-Mbyte volume is 2,500
Correction Note 54.1 - the 25.5 Mbyte volume is 1,000
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| 54.2 | Use a slot in the "Sidecar" for HD | LEHIGH::SORKIN | Al Sorkin 289-1280 | Wed Jul 09 1986 15:54 | 5 |
The latest issue of "Amazing Computing" has a good write up on
the Sidecar in which it states that the hard disk on an option card
could be put into a sidecar slot and partitioned for both PC-Dos
and AmigaDos usage. Such cards with a hard disk mounted could run
in the $500-600 range at 20meg.
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