[ale] TB in an external firewire drive

[Scott Castaline]

Greg Freemyer wrote:

> On 9/1/05, *Robert L. Harris* <Robert.L.Harris at rdlg.net 
> <mailto:Robert.L.Harris at rdlg.net>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     5MB?
>
>     C64 with an external 5.25" and a TAPE.  I remember getting REAL
>     excited
>     when I could re-notch it and double the storage.  Then the 3.5" drives
>     let us REALLY up the storage on the BBS.
>
>     Before that was a sinclair but that didn't "really" have external
>     storage, just the carts.
>
>
> I was sticking to "rigid disk" storage.  I started out with very slow 
> 8" floppies for storage.  90KB?
>
> I remember being very excited when we bought a dual 8" floppy drive 
> pair for $2200, dual density, double sided.  I've forgot who made 
> them, but the standard at the time was worm drive controlled heads.  
> The ones we bought were moved by magnetic heads (like a speaker).  
> Ultra fast.  (whatever that meant at the time.)  The 5MB harddisk was 
> a upgrade a year or two later.
>
> Greg
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> Greg Freemyer
> The Norcross Group
> Forensics for the 21st Century
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The "worm-drive" sounds like Shugart. The one with magnetic heads (like 
a speaker) sound like servo-contolled. I don't remember that for floppy 
drives, but in harddrives.