20 Dec
2005
20 Dec
'05
2:50 a.m.
On 12/16/05, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
I don't believe that the early IDE CD-ROM drives
were ATAPI, either, so
SCSI was the closest thing to anything standard. My first sound card
certainly had a SCSI adapter on it.
You got that right. I have two relatively early 16-bit sound cards
next to me (i.e. old enough to have a volume control knob on the
bracket.) One has two connectors (Mitsumi and SCSI interface,
although the chip that would enable the SCSI interface is missing).
The other has four possible interfaces (Sony, Panasonic, Mitsumi and
IDE). In that case only IDE is active. You'd need to replace a PAL
to activate the others. It also has 3 different CD audio connectors.