Date   : Thu, 11 Jul 1985 08:27:00 EDT
From   : Kushall.henr@XEROX.ARPA
Subject: Re:HardDisks for DEC Rainbows

Ralph,

The following suppliers of rigid disk drives are listed in the spring
84 DEC Rainbow handbook.

CORVUS SYSTEMS
2029 O'Toole Ave.
San Jose, CA 95131
(408) 946-7700

  External winchester drives 5.9 M, 12.1 M, 18.4 M

UNIVATION INC
1037 North Fair Oaks Ave.
Sunnyvale, CA 94089
(408) 745-0180

 5 M removable hard disk with 64-320K RAM
 11 M internal hard disk with 64-320 K RAM

QUCES INC.
3 Quces Drive
Metuchen NJ 08840
(800) 631-5944
(201) 548-2135
 
 10, 16, 20, 42, 57, and 84 M Hard disk subsystems

The June 85 Digital Review had an article on rigid disk drives for DEC
computers, Rainbow to VAX.

Of the vendors listed only digital and Univation were listed for the
Rainbow.
The following Univation list prices were given.

DHD205R-64 5.25 inch 20 MB fixed 5 MB removable 85 msec access time
625KB/Sec
List price $3995

DHD20-64 5.25 inch 20.7 MB fixed 85 msec access time 625KB/Sec
List price $2750

DHD11-64 5.25 inch 11 MB fixed 80 msec access time 625KB/Sec
List price $2160

I hope you find this info useful, if you had an IBM PC you can get a 10
MB drivesetup for about $600 and 20 MB for about $ 800.

A while back Advanced Computer Products had a close on the DEC 5 MB
Rainbow
upgrade for $750, but none are left.

Also please note unless you have thre Rainbow 100B you will have to
replace the power supply as the 100A power supply can not supply a
rigid.

Sad note, you can buy a Tandy 1200 with 10 Meg Hard Disk($1995) for less
than the cost of any of the above!

ED