6 May
2005
6 May
'05
5:28 a.m.
On 5/6/05, Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
SMD was another drive interface of 20-something years
ago....
SMD drives were uncommon for PC-class hardware, but
were quite common
for minicomputers, especially in the PDP-11 and VAX worlds where
people didn't want to pay DEC's prices for DEC's disks.
OIC. TFTI! That explains why I'd not met them, then - I went straight
from 1980s 8-bit home micros to Macs & x86 PCs.
Aside from a little
fiddling with Amigas, STs, QLs & Acorn RISC machines, plus
the odd
Sun, I know little of any earlier hardware. I can drive a VAX but not
build one. :?(
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