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PowerMATE 2 Hard Disk Drive Subsystem (10, 20 or 40Mb MFM or RLL Hard Drive)

MICRO INNOVATIONS · Mass Storage
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PowerMATE 2 Hard Disk Drive Subsystem (10, 20 or 40Mb MFM or RLL Hard Drive)
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Catalogue IDHW-0372
ManufacturerMICRO INNOVATIONS
Person or teamMark Gordon
TypeMass Storage (Storage)
Connects viaFIRST HARD DRIVE DESIGN | Internal Expansion Slot #2 and External Housing - included 2 Serial/1 Parallel Port and 1 open drive bay for 5 1/4" 360K or 3 1/2" 720K Disk Drive
PlatformADAM
StatusReleased
SourceCollectors DB v1.00 Master

Notes

The second of Micro Innovations' PowerMATE hard disk subsystems for the ADAM, in 10, 20 or 40MB.

What a PowerMATE is

  • A hard disk and its controller, taking one expansion slot and needing no modification to the console.
  • Storage measured in megabytes on a machine whose own medium was a 256K tape, and available instantly rather than after winding.

MFM and RLL

  • Two ways of encoding data onto the same drives. RLL fits about half as much again onto the same platters, so the capacity depends on the controller as much as the mechanism.

Micro Innovations, of Reston, Virginia, built hardware for the ADAM after Coleco had left it, and the PowerMATE was among its first products.