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from: Steven Hirsch
date: 2009-01-20 07:03:36
subject: Re: Xebec `Trustor` 30MB Drive - Pre-Sider

a2aviator{at}gmail.com wrote:
> Xebec drives were sold under the Trustor brand, and it was a full
> height MFM drive inside, and then later on when they revamped the
> product line, the bridge board was made simpler, sort of like the ][+
> to //e - less IC's, they were marketed as the First Class Peripherals
> - the Sider. The first Sider's used Half Height Miniscribe drives
> before later on going to an all embedded drive manufactured for Xebec
> itself, and the 1410 SASI Bridge controller was embedded within the
> drive for a single piece inside the Sider case.

My first Apple hard disk was a Xebec Datamac Trustor 10 MB unit.  If you are 
interested in images of the OEM software (pre-SiderWare) contact me privately. 
  Perhaps something is different between the original and the Sider support.
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