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    30-Jun-90  22:29:17
Sb: #4786-Special deal
Fm: Kevin Darling (UG Pres) 76703,4227
To: Jim Williams 72157,3524 (X)

DoM Eet,

You can use either 3.5 or 5.25 PC-style floppy drives, normal or hi-density. Up
to four of them, I believe. It comes with one 3.5 hidens drive (useable in
normal density mode also, of course).

Switching those between two computers would involve the "usual" stuff... like a
17-pole switch or so. Accessing MSDOS disks will be possible, so you could
manually move the disk from one drive to another, too.

SCSI should be easier. I could see sharing a HD between the machines... altho
that would mean partitioning it into PC/OS9 sections to prevent trouble. Hmm.
There is a PCDOS file manager for OS9, but I cringe at the thought of using it
for normal OS9 HD operations.

So personally I'd put two HDs on there: one for the Bridgeboard side, the other
for the OS9 side. If you have the second (I/O expansion) board on the MM/1,
it's just a matter of using a 50-pin cable to hook a SCSI drive to the
computer's SCSI header. Any size HD is fine. I know of people with two
1-gigabyte drives online. Did I answer what you meant? best - kev

PS: a friend noticed that a place called the Treasure Chest (?) in Computer
Shopper had 85meg SCSI hard disks for about $370! Sounds like a deal!