The Apple dealer I worked for in 1981 was also a Corvus harddrive for the Apple series computers. I set up 5 meg,10,20 and 40 meg Corvus HD's for various schools in the Duluth Minnesota area. The Corvus partitioned their HD's with Dos 3.3, Pascal and CP/M. When Prodos came on the scene in 1984 I spent over 3 hours on long distance trying to configure their HD's with the Prodos partition. Their manuals were terrible and finally a Corvus engineer had to single step the process and I took notes. The first 5 meg Corvus HD was enclosed in a plastic case and spun the 5 1/4" platters at 5000 RPM which at that time was fast. The newer models of Corvus used MFM drives made by IMI and their platter brake pads would stick. Corvus made their HD's to be used on almost any platform including the Comodore 64 and other odd ball computers. They also worked on the Apple /// and the Mac Plus. Corvus used a vcr tape backup and the system worked very well. I still have some vcr tapes of a Corvus backup and they look funky. Corvus backed up the data 4 times then compared the 4 sections to see if they were all the same. Their backup system was called the Corvus mirror. I still have a bunch of Corvus HD's, software and various interface cards for the Apple and Mac plus computers for sale/trade if anybody is interested. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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