OT: computer nostalgia (was RE: Rapid once deployed too)

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 03:24:40PM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
> I did something similar to deal with hard drives.  I got tired of dealing
> with Tandy's somewhat flakey hard drive enclosures with daisy chained
> drives which could totally fry rather expensive controller boards if a
> cable wasn't seated perfectly.  I stuck four 70MB drives in a full-height
> tower chassis with the controller board mounted where the motherboard would
> normally go, plugging this into the back of the Tandy 6000.  This ran
> perfectly for several years.

I really *badly* want to put about half a dozen 750GB (or later this
year, 1TB) bubbles in an old "TRS-80 Hard Disk Drive" enclosure; one of
which I have available to me.

Cheers,
-- jra
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