SMD (was Re: All things ESDI)

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On Sat, 7 May 2005 shoppa_classiccmp at trailing-edge.com wrote:

> I'm not sure where (it's *not* the Aug 1976 glossy) but I think
> I've seen a picture of a IMSAI next to a CDC 9762, with the
> implication that they were connected.  Don't know if that was an
> IMSAI ad or not.
>
> Tim.
>
> (After 30 years I still think it was probably vaporware... Of course
> there were non-SMD hard drives (SA4000 style) that were succesfully
> interfaced to S-100 stuff.)

I seem to recall reading in _Once Upon a Time in Computerland_ that they
were trying to develop a hard drive interface with limited success.

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