Re: TP600 HDs?

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From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_icanect.net)
Date: Mon Oct 04 1999 - 15:38:36 EDT

There never IS..

but time to end user is shortening dramatically..!

especially with the announcement of a yet more dense 25 billion bits per sq.
inch yesterday.. or is that 36 billion..
i don't have the announcement in front of me, but it boggles my mind..! :-)

the 25gig is not yet available to us peons, yet a 40+gig looms on the
horizon..
who the H$%# needs 40 or 80 gigs on a thinkpad..??! besides those few of you
who keep the entire contents of the library of congress, including photos, on
their machine...

this all goes back to a time several years ago when i predicted on the
compuserve thinkpad forum that soon, we would all be connected with a chip
implanted behing your ear, to the net and everything else..

need a fact in a debate, and VIOLA! there it is..! on line, in your head..!!
you wife can send you an instruction to "come home now" and VIOLA! there you
are, at home..!! :-)

Valentino Kyriakides wrote:

> Two months ago some of the new IBM mobile harddisks have been send to PC
> manufactors like Compaq, HP and Dell. See www.ibm.com/harddrive,
> www.compaq.de, www.hewlett-packard.de, www.dell.de.
>
> Here is a link to the specs etc. of the new IBM mobile harddisks:
>
> http://www.storage.ibm.com/hardsoft/diskdrdl/prod/ts25gs18gt12gn.htm
>
> However, there wasn't any concrete announcement, when they can be *really*
> bought by endusers.
>
> Greetings Valentino
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bill Morrow [mailto:penzance_at_icanect.net]
> > Sent: Monday, October 04, 1999 6:46 AM
> > To: Andrew Webber
> > Cc: thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu
> > Subject: Re: TP600 HDs?
> >
> >
> > Andrew..
> > these do exist and will become available sometime.. soon..?? not sure,
> > but i have some on order and when i get one to test i'll post this info
> > on my site..
> > also 25gig, 17mm drives for the 770 series.. same as above..
> >
> > Andrew Webber wrote:
> >
> > > Hello!
> > >
> > > thinkpads.com lists a 12.7mm hard drive at 10gig and $349.
> > >
> > > Dell is offering 12.7mm at 18gig (and 17mm at 25gig).
> > >
> > > Are these 18-gig drives actually available? Would one work in my
> > > TP600? How much?
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > andrew
> > > ------
> > > current local weather: http://cnn.com/WEATHER/html/OttawaOntario.html
> >
> > --
> > Live Long and Prosper, Happy trails...
> >
> > ** Bill Morrow ** :-)
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> > e-mail: bill_at_thinkpads.com, penzance_at_icanect.net
> >
> > use the delete key to avoid unwanted flames,
> > any mis-spellings are the fault of the spell checker, poor typing skills
> > or i just don't care.. :-)
> >
> > 

--
Live Long and Prosper, Happy trails...

** Bill Morrow **   :-)
WEB page http://thinkpads.com
Thinkpad User Community: http://thinkpads.com/enter.html
Compuserve Thinkpad(c) Forum Sysop, Webmaster http://www.
roadwarriortrading.com
e-mail: bill_at_thinkpads.com, penzance_at_icanect.net

use the delete key to avoid unwanted flames,
any mis-spellings are the fault of the spell checker, poor typing skills or i
just don't care..  :-)

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