Re: hard drives for tp720c?

[<kevin@warrior.com>]

>> "I bought a 720 Million Bytes (!) HD for a tp720c at Sigma Data, phone: 800 446
>> 4525, fax:603 526 6919.
>> Educational price was $1100,- (1295 non edu.)"
>> 
>> I hope this was some time ago. I bought a 1.2 gig drive for a 750 for 
>> little more than this a few months ago.
>
>But the 720 took ESDI. Not enough made to get the kind of price discount 
>an IDE can.....

Ah, yes, but the kicker is that it was a Micro-Channel drive (using IBM's
wanna-be standard Micro-Channel Architecture, or MCA, which never took
off and was eventually canned by IBM).  Nobody makes MCA drives anymore,
and Sigma Data's solution is some kind of high-priced work-around.  It's
clever, though.  I guess if you absolutely need to upgrade your 700 or
720, this is the only solution other than using an external hard drive
chassis off of the parallel port.  

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