3 Jun
1998
3 Jun
'98
8:56 p.m.
Allison J Parent wrote:
<Of course, I was just using the vernacular... (About like "CMOS setup" -
<you didn't make any comments about that one though. :-)) But I didn't
<remember that it was called ST506. Sounds like a Seagate part number.
<Was it a PC hard drive, or even earlier?
The ST506 was an early 5mb full height 5.25" hard disk from Shugart (later
to become seagate). I still have a few. I predates the PC! The first
PCs to have a hard disk used either the ST506 (5m) ST412 (10mb) or the
Tandon t100 10mb all of which had a similar st506 drive level interface.
As I recall, the proper name for the Shugart 506 interface became a
proto-standard called SASI, and is a direct ancestor to SCSI. Though
it's a bit hard to recognize the grandparent in the children's faces.
--
Ward Griffiths
They say that politics makes strange bedfellows.
Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else.
Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_