Re: Parsons Technology Info Wanted!

[unknown@apple.com (Matt Ackeret)]

In article <YgCssOW00VpEADTAN1@andrew.cmu.edu> "Seth D. Kadesh" <thes+@CMU.EDU> writes:
>Can someone enlighten me?  What does Parsons Technology make?

	Relatively reasonably priced [at least compared to the Cirtech ones
of a few years past] hard-drives-on-a-card.  They were at Apple Expo West.

	Bill Heineman does the software.. The drive powers down after a
user-configurable amount of time [including "never" I think]... So any of
you who are trying to build portable GSes keep this in mind!  Hadn't thought of
this before, but if Heineman ever gets Avatar finished, presumably he'll
use one of these in the portable version.

	The drives on the card are IDE drives, and they said the speed was 
between the DMA SCSI and RamFAST speeds.

	At Apple Expo West they were selling 40 and 80 meg versions, and said
they only currently were making up to 200 meg ones.. But people can find a 
bigger drive themselves and send it to them to mount on a card for them.
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