Date   : Fri, 13 Jan 1989 19:39:38 GMT
From   : att!alberta!auvax!tech@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Richard Loken)
Subject: Radio Schlock TRS-80 Model II hard drive

Now that I have four eight inch drives running on my Model II I thought
it would
be kind of nice to run a hard disc and maybe two floppies (oh heck run four).

At one time Radio Schlock sold a 15M hard drive for the price of a used Volvo
which from the pictures seems to be the size of a VW Microbus.

Questions.

What were these drives and how common are they?

Have any of you put a hard disc of any form on a Model II and what did you
learn from it?

How easy is it to make the hard disc bootable?  Have you found a way to boot
the hard disc with elegance, say so that if a floppy is in drive 0 then you
boot from drive 0?

Am I being really ignorant?

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    **********     Richard Loken VE6BSV
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