BASF (Was: SCSI to IDE bridges...

[John C. Ellingboe]

Jules Richardson wrote:
> Fred Cisin wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 26 Sep 2008, Alexander Schreiber wrote:
>>
>>> Exactly. I dealt with the 3.5" HD stuff. I avoided BASF wherever
>>> possible because the disks were so amazingly crappy. Unfortunately, the
>>> competition wasn't much better.
>>
>>
>> Anybody else remember the 2/3 height 5.25" drives that BASF peddled in
>> 1979?    High DOA rate.
> 
> 
> Hmm, vaguely.
> 
> Now who was it that did those slimline 5.25" drives (slightly less than 
> 1/2 height) with the eject button (rather than handle) on the front? My 
> brain's trying to tell me those are BASF too*, but I could be wrong. I 
> know I have some in storage back in the UK, and they're not very 
> reliable either.
> 
> * Although maybe they're Epson; the system manufacturer that they came 
> from were as fond of Epson as they were BASF...
> 
> (Oh, and don't get me started on BASF ST506/412 hard drives - bleh!)
> 
> 
> .
> 

Cannon advertised/sold a drive that would match the slimline description 
you provided.  It seems like I have several of them somewhere around here.