This probably the only one of these around now. At one point, I think Sanyo (Sangyo in Japan) took over Rosscomp and a smaller 5 1/4" drive. I don't have one of those. This one was the last US assembled drive and was a proprietary interface. Also it was an 8" short form factor.
The 5 1/4 drives made by Sanyo had a SCSI interface, but were stillborn, too late, and the contractors couldn't make the firmware work.
Here are a couple of LA times articles from 1985 when Rosscomp was circling the drain, and started to sell off parts of itself.
Article mentioning the president of the company at the time, Rod Hosilyk.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-01-03-fi-11303-story.html
Sold an interest to Sanyo (Nissho Iwai Corp)
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-01-17-fi-7913-story.html
Infoworld article for this drive (160mb)
Says the interface was SA1400
Address was 16443 Valley View Ave, Cerretos, Ca which is now a vacant lot.
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