21 Jul
2010
21 Jul
'10
11:54 p.m.
On 21 July 2010 00:28, John Foust <jfoust at threedee.com> wrote:
At 11:16 AM 7/20/2010, Liam Proven wrote:
Um, that wasn't any relative of RS422, RS423, RS232 or anything akin
to it, was it? I thought it was some serialised variant of an IEEE
interface, as used on the PET machines...
All fair points, but then, who ever used serial
ports to connect mass
storage? (I know there was a serial port hard disk for the first ever
Mac, but that was from complete lack of any alternative.)
I can think of the Commodore 64- 1541 drive and the external floppy drive
for the Tandy Model 100.
This one I didn't know about, but Tandy machines were never very big
this side of the Atlantic. /Way/ too expensive for most Brits.
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