6 Feb
1999
6 Feb
'99
8:42 p.m.
On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Ethan Dicks wrote:
Commodore used the 8-bit IDE stuff in their Colts (XT
clones) and the
A590/A291 SCSI interfaces for A500 and Zorro-II (no doubt because of Jack
Tameil's infamous penchant for forcing engineers to design in whatever
surplus hardware was lying around the warehouse).
I don't know about the Colts, but Jack Tramiel was long gone by the time
of the A590 and A2091. He left Commodore in January 1984.
-ethan
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