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- From: lorenh@hpcvra.cv.hp.com (Loren Heisey)
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 19:10:06 GMT
- Subject: Re: PCMCIA hard disk drives (was: Integral Systems, Inc?)
- Message-ID: <27110005@hpcvra.cv.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
- References: <1993Jan06.235033.13461@sco.com>
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- >In <1993Jan06.235033.13461@sco.com> timr@sco.COM (Tim Ruckle) writes:
- >>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...
- >
- >Yes, I need to *find* this company because I found all other companies.
- >For your information, here is the list of PCMCIA HD manufacturers.
- >
- > Conner
- > Kalok
- > Aura
- > Ministor Peripherals
- > NEC
- > Seagate
- > Integral Systems
-
- According to the October 26 PC Week, Western Digital Corp also has
- a 1.8 inch PCMCIA drive.
-
- >Most of them do not have the sample at the moment. Interestingly,
- >they all say the sample is going to be available at the end of Feb.
- >1993. In the Las Vegas COMDEX, I saw a couple of companies
- >(including AT&T with its new chipset) displaying HD from Integral
- >Systems. So, I assumed Integral Systems must have their sample units.
- >Since then, I have tried to find this company to buy a sample.
-
- Perhaps you are thinking about Integral Peripherals Inc. which announced
- their 1.8 inch drive on September 3, 1991. However their initial drive had
- an IDE interface rather than a PCMCIA interface.
-
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- Loren Heisey
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