Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!husc6!cmcl2!phri!dasys1!alexis From: alexis@dasys1.UUCP (Alexis Rosen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: ST-506 to SCSI controller info want Message-ID: <5332@dasys1.UUCP> Date: 5 Jul 88 07:18:00 GMT References: <246@iconsys.UUCP> <76000244@p.cs.uiuc.edu> Reply-To: alexis@dasys1.UUCP (Alexis Rosen) Lines: 25 In article <76000244@p.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu writes: |The rhetorical question I REALLY wanted to ask was: Why doesn't some |enterprising Macintosh hardware company make the following box |including: | |1. case & power supply (shrunken PC perhaps?) |2. space for 1 or 2 hard disk drives to be bolted down. |3. SCSI-ST506/ST406 conversion board. |4. Macintosh disk driver software on 3.5 floppies, tailored for this | SCSI interface. | |Cost: $200 or less? MicroNet, the new company started by Charles McConathy, sells such kits. They are made for SCSI drives, not ST-506, but they are low-cost and come with UNIVERSAL power supplies, just like the SE and Mac II. I haven't bought any of their stuff yet, but I will. Charles is the guy who made CMS such a good Mac drive manufacturer, and I expect even better stuff from his own company. -- Alexis Rosen {allegra,philabs,cmcl2}!phri\ Writing from {bellcore,harpo,cmcl2}!cucard!dasys1!alexis The Big Electric Cat {portal,well,sun}!hoptoad/ Public UNIX if mail fails: ...cmcl2!cucard!cunixc!abr1