8 Oct
2011
8 Oct
'11
3:31 p.m.
On 8 Oct 2011 at 17:39, Toby Thain wrote:
This was years in advance of the PC world noticing
SCSI, of
course...
Sarcasm aside, this brings up a good question...
I've got a 1984 Ampex Megastore board for the PC that uses SCSI
(I'll have to check the ROM exactly, to see if they call it SASI or
SCSI, but it uses the command set). It connected with an external
box with both tape and disk drives.
I suspect it wasn't the first for the PC. Does anyone know what was?
Apple wasn't even part of the USB working group for a long time.
USB was on amny PC motherboards even before connectors for it became
available. My earliest USB device is an Anchor Chips EZ-Link S/N
0011--I'd have to open it up to figure out the year. I've got
other USB devices that are labeled for use with a specific
motherboard. Plug them into a different one, and they're invisible.
Early USB was an unmitigated nightmare. After spending a bunch of
money on technical books and hardware and then witnessing how awful
the implementations were, I lost interest quickly.
--Chuck