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- From: timr@sco.COM (Tim Ruckle)
- Subject: PCMCIA hard disk drives (was: Integral Systems, Inc?)
- Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
- Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 23:50:33 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan06.235033.13461@sco.com>
- References: <C0GAyK.47A@cs.uiuc.edu>
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- Va negvpyr <C0GAyK.47A@cs.uiuc.edu> ywlee@cs.uiuc.edu (Youngwhan Lee) jevgrf:
- } I need to find this company. (Boy, I have tried this for a couple
- } of months now. I have looked various places including posting
- } it to comp.palmtop and comp.pen-based. This newsgroup is my last
- } hope.)
-
- do you need to find *this* company, or *a* company that sells PCMCIA hard
- disk drives? i've never heard of them, and don't see them advertising in
- any of the trade rags...
-
- there is assorted pcmcia information, including a list of vendors, which
- can be gotten via anonymous ftp from csd4.csd.uwm.edu:/pub/Palmtop/.
- as a last ditch effort, you could contact the PCMCIA itself [1030 E. Duane
- Ave., Ste. G, Sunnyvale, CA 94086, (408) 720-0107] and ask them for a list
- of all the appropriate vendors they know about.
-
- } If you know anything about the company please let me know.
- } I understand the company is making 1.8 inch hard disk drives.
- } I'm interested in getting PCMCIA compatible 1.8 inch drives.
-
- last month a poster who'd attended the laptop computer show at the Santa
- Clara convention center mentioned that one vendor (don't know who) was
- showing an 85 MB PCMCIA hard disk. i don't know what the form factor of
- the drive was, but i imagine it must be a type III card (10mm thick and
- requiring a double-height slot) to accomodate it.
-
- HP's now shipping a 20MB *1.3-inch* hard disk drive, called the Kittyhawk.
- i don't know if anybody's announced a PCMCIA card based on it, but you can
- contact HP's Direct Marketing Organization at, P.O. Box 58059, MS511L-SJ,
- Santa Clara, CA 95051, 800-637-7740.
-
- that being said, you might also consider looking at solid-state drives as
- well. they're bound to be more expensive per megabyte for the time being,
- but i'll bet the premium is not nearly so high when you're talking about
- PCMCIA-capable mechanical drives...
-
- -timr
-
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