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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)
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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.
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