Yeah, the drives in the IBM 5150/5160 were standard Tandon TM100-1 or -2A (single or double sided), with IBM's logo stamped on them. The PCJr used a Qumetrak 142 with IBM's logo stamped on them. Oddly enough, they stopped doing this with the IBM 5170... -Thom On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 12:16 PM William Levak <wlevak@sdf.org> wrote: > On Tue, 8 Jan 2019, silverdr@wfmh.org.pl wrote: > > > Again - the same story as some time ago - IBM did NOT take "off-the > shelf" > drives as you like to tell the world. They ordered custom (IBM) branded > ones. Only the custom injection moulds cost probably more than the whole > thing we talk about here. Off-the-shelf story of CRippled hardware was a > result, not cause of what IBM did. > > The IBM drives were identical to ones available from other sources, except > the IBM logo. I am absolutely sure of this because I was putting together > systems back then and I bought the same drives without the IBM logo, at > half the price. As far as the cost of the IBM logo, it was a common > practice for the manufacturer to put your logo on them at no extra cost, > if you put in a big enough order. > > wlevak@sdf.lonestar.org > SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org > >Received on 2019-01-08 20:03:39
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