Talk:MiniScribe
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[edit] xt-series drives?
On New Year's Day 1990, MiniScribe declared bankruptcy and announced that it was up for sale. In April, Maxtor purchased the company. Maxtor was looking for a PC-friendly companion line to its high-end XT-series drives,
XT is linked to "IBM Personal Computer XT" here, and that in combination with "PC-friendly" suggests a comparison between drives for the IBM PC XT and drives for the original IBM PC. This can't be right, can it? By 1990 the XT (not to mention the the IBM PC, which differed from the XT mainly in having no built-in hard drive) was dead as a doornail; 386's were more the order of the day. I'm assuming that 'XT', independently, wsa the name of Maxtor's drive line, so I removed the link.
- That is correct; the high end drives were the XT-xxxx models (one that would have been current on the early 1990s was the XT-8760E 700MB drive, which I last saw in an old NEC RomMaker CD-mastering rig about 10 years ago). I forget what differentiated the MXT and LXT models, but they all used the same basic architecture that dated all the way back to the XT-1000 in 1982. As an aside, I suppose that they wanted out of high-end SCSI because Seagate pretty much owned that area then, the XT-series designs were ESDI-based and quickly becoming obsolete, and all the R&D was going on with the former MiniScribe team in Longmont, whose specialty was mainstream 3.5-inch drives. -lee 15:50, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
