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From: peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: List of recommended hardware components
Organization: Taronga Park BBS
Message-ID: <D3puIM.2E1@bonkers.taronga.com>
References: <3g890k$cbl@ionews.io.org> <D3HtB4.33G@bonkers.taronga.com> <D3L92H.3MA@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <3h8gss$8o5@hptemp1.cc.umr.edu>
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 1995 04:44:46 GMT
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In article <3h8gss$8o5@hptemp1.cc.umr.edu>,
Patrick Hall <phall@saucer.cc.umr.edu> wrote:
>	Miniscribes were awful - I'm glad I don't see them anymore.  The
>Seagate ST251-1's were fairly nice, at least IMHO.  I just wish Priam were
>still around - didn't Seagate buy them?

Priam got bought by Atasi and I think they ended up getting bought by
Maxtor. Now was it Miniscribe or Micropolis that ended up joining them
as Maxtor buy-outs about that time? Can't keep track of them all.