Re: Corvus Hard Disk

["Rob Cecchino" <rcecchino@hotmail.com>]

The first units were 10 meg Corvus drives going for $4000 -- I know the
price since I paid for it back in late 1981 or early 1982 for use in a UCSD
Pascal environment. I had the "first one on my block." The drive started up
like a jet engine and was terribly noisy. 5 meg drives followed and these
boxes were smaller. Corvus interface cards were on eBay a few months ago and
sold for $5 without documentation and cables.

Have fun!



"Charles Richmond" <richmond@ev1.net> wrote in message
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> SIMM8MB wrote:
> >
> > Hello all. I came upon 2 corvus hard drives today for free. I think it
goes to
> > an apple II, but I'm not sure. It is a Corvus OmniDrive. I can't find
any
> > interface connectors on the unit except a 3-pin header that says "Tap".
Can
> > someone please tell me more about this?
> >
> I remember when the hard disks became available in the early 1980's, a
unit
> cost $3,000 U.S.  I think the first ones were 5 meg, but then soon after
the
> 10 meg units appeared.  IIRC, you should be able to interface it some way
> to your Apple ][.
>
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