11 Oct
2011
11 Oct
'11
12:08 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
Thinking about it, Whitechapel's MG-1 had SCSI on the main PCB as standard
equipment, and that was in 1984, so a couple of years before the Mac Plus.
The mono display was somewhere around the 1024x768 mark IIRC, and although
they were fully-fledged UNIX crates they were primarily intended as
single-user desktop machines.
Of course for the purposes of argument (umm, I mean discussion) maybe we
need to be limiting contenders to those selling within a few % of the Mac
Plus :-) (the MG-1 was pretty expensive, given the display resolution,
32-bit CPU and memory expansion options)
cheers
Jules
Hmm, by what
definition did they "first make the leap to SCSI"? Are you
comparing just against an IBM-compatible PC, or do you maybe mean "first
with on-board SCSI"? Or maybe "first with a machine costing less than
$xxxx"?
I'm just surprised, because there seemed to be a *lot* of systems that were
(or could be made so, if not out of the box) SCSI-capable during the 80s.
I would be very suprised if the Mac+ was the first computer to have a
SCSI interface. The Mac+ uses a stnadard single-chip SCSI cotnroller
(5380 IIRC), which was not designed to go into the Mac, or even to go
into a 68000 machine. It's a standard chip, off the shelf.