[torontocbm] Re: Rear Admiral Tunderdrive (CMD HD)

  • From: James Alexander <james.m.alexander@xxxxxxxxx>
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  • Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2012 12:03:29 -0500

On 20/12/2011 9:45 AM, Leif Bloomquist wrote:
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 12:26 AM, Robin Harbron <macbeth@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:macbeth@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: 

    I'm usually excited about any hardware developments - but even in
    Commodore-land, this seems really old-fashioned and horrifically
    overpriced.  $600!

    Is there any reason to prefer this over a uIEC?

    Robin.
The same guy also produced the "Rear Admiral" Lt. Kernal hard drive clone a while back, which made more sense because several BBS programs supported it. I originally had them confused. Yeah, that's a lot of money. You can probably buy an original CMD HD on eBay for $600. 

-Leif



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I chalk it up to the ebay effect which I've often seen driving up retro computer items, at least some of them to insane prices. Though I'm all for newly produced mass storage for commmodore machines if they can be made affordably, or more affordably I should say.
On the topic of bbs's has anyone tried what works on the uIEC's? this is still on my to do list and haven't had a chance to yet. A cool project if people are interested might be modifying or creating something to work on a uIEC and would also have the option of using the Ethernet cartridges Jim Brain sells.

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