Re: Evotek Winchester Harddisk

2015-12-07 Thread Oliver Lehmann
Tom Gardner wrote: The Evotek drive initially used the notoriously unreliable Ampex Alar plated media; whether they ever upgraded to sputtered media is uncertain. It probably should be avoided. I would look for an replacement drive using oxide media. The nice

RE: Evotek Winchester Harddisk

2015-12-07 Thread Tom Gardner
07, 2015 3:55 AM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: Evotek Winchester Harddisk Tom Gardner < <mailto:t.gard...@computer.org> t.gard...@computer.org> wrote: > The Evotek drive initially used the notoriously unreliable Ampex Alar > pla

Re: Evotek Winchester Harddisk

2015-12-07 Thread Oliver Lehmann
Tom Gardner wrote: Sorry If I didn't make myself clear, I am suggesting one never acquire an Evotek drive today other than perhaps as an historical curiosity. The Finch was a short lived 8-inch HDD that went up to 42 MB unformatted BUT according to Disk/Trend

Re: Evotek Winchester Harddisk

2015-12-07 Thread Al Kossow
On 12/7/15 3:54 AM, Oliver Lehmann wrote: And - I found nothing "compatible" so far to replace them with other harddisks. It looks similar to the SA1000 interface. Memorex 112/Fujitsu 2301? Fujitsu drives were used in Morrow 8" disk units.

RE: Evotek Winchester Harddisk

2015-12-06 Thread Tom Gardner
that's one thing not to worry about in a 35 year old drive Tom -Original Message- From: Chuck Guzis [mailto:ccl...@sydex.com] Sent: Saturday, December 05, 2015 11:13 AM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: Evotek Winchester Harddisk On 12/05/2015 10:36 AM

Re: Evotek Winchester Harddisk

2015-12-05 Thread Chuck Guzis
On 12/05/2015 10:36 AM, Oliver Lehmann wrote: Hi, has anyone ever heard of Evotek ET-5800 series Winchester harddisks? I wonder which interface they have. I'm looking for a replacement of a CDC FINCH 9410 and wonder if they would be a possible replacement. ET-5800:

RE: Evotek Winchester Harddisk

2015-12-05 Thread tony duell
> > The Evotek 5000 series is a bog-standard ST-506/ST-412 "MFM" interface. > OEM manual is on Manx: > > http://manx.classiccmp.org/mirror/harte/Evotek/ET-5000%20Family%20OEM%20Manual.pdf > > Back in 1983 I had an opportunity to play with one. Pretty interesting, > but very expensive, as I

Re: Evotek Winchester Harddisk

2015-12-05 Thread Chuck Guzis
On 12/05/2015 11:19 AM, tony duell wrote: I've skimmed that manual and wonder why they are 'pretty interesting'. What have I missed? For the time (1982), they were larger than almost any other ST506-interfaced 5.25' drives. --Chuck