Re: Xebec 'Trustor' 30MB Drive - Pre-Sider

[Silicon Sam <SiliconSam@gmail.com>]

On Jan 19, 8:06 pm, a2avia...@gmail.com wrote:
> I have a couple of Xebec Trustor drives, these are pre-Sider
> manufactured, though actually the date codes on them overlap that of
> what I have in the Sider collection too.
>
> What I'm wondering is if anyone here has had any experience working
> within those older full height 5.25" Quantum drives. In the years past
> I had about 4 of these all go bad in about the same way, but in those
> days I just got a new drive and put it in.

   Don't remember the Trustor name, but mine and several others had a
Zebec controller and a Zebec card that took a standard PC hard drive
and made it work on an Apple II.  I want to say it was some sort of
SASI interface (not SCSI, but related).  Max I think was in the 20-40
MB range.  Worked fine, even a couple of guys I knew ran BBS's off an
old Apple II+ with them.

  My first Sider came from a First Class Peripherals rep that did a
demo at our user group meeting.  I traded a brand new Sider 20 for 4
disk controller cards, and a couple of super serial cards.  Something
trivial like that.  I had little or nothing in them, so I was happy.