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From: dalesys@lamont.Columbia.edu (dale chayes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.masscomp
Subject: Re: Disks for a Masscomp
Summary: masscomp disk add-ons
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Date: 20 Sep 88 03:53:10 GMT
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In article <1266@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu>, harry@rainbow.atmos.washington.edu (Harry Edmon) writes:
> 
> What types of disks can you add to a 5500 with a 71mb disk and a floppy?

There was a very comprehensive artilce about adding ST-506 drives to Masscomps
in the most recent Musings (the news letter of the Masscomp Users Society) 
which you might find helpful. (If you didn't get it, please note that MUS has
decided that we can't afford to give the news letter away for free anymore.)

We have added CDC-9720/850 HSMD drives on XY-472 controllers to three 
of our Masscomps (a 5520 and two 5550s.) These drives require a controller 
and cables etc. For about $10k per computer, we get 710 megabytes of fast disk. 

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