9 Oct
2011
9 Oct
'11
10:32 a.m.
[Apple SCSI[
Actually, i did realsie that.
See, that's the difference between people who use
Macs (and used them
the time) and the rest. Your superstition isn't true. There is perfect
I am _sure_ I rememebr there being different firmware EPROMs for some
hard disks -- Mac firmware and 'stnadard' firmware. I am thining of the
1985-86 timeframe.
interoperability with SCSI disks, tapes, scanners,
printers, etc. This
was years in advance of the PC world noticing SCSI, of course...
All the world is not a PC :-). I am sure there were other machiens with
SCSI at the time.
Yes it does.
The original Mac OSs didn't have any real way of automating
tasks. A computer is good at doing the same thing over and over again
with slight changes. Not to have that facility makes the machine
essentialyl useuless to me.
If you'd used a Mac you know that automation facilities existed in
System 7, 8 and 9, and of course OS X, and there was third party automation at least in System 6. There were also
command lines
available, not least the well respected MPW shell, if you wanted one.
But AFAIK they weren't included as standard. I though the whole point of a
Mac was that it worked straight out of the box...
-tony