3 Jul
2007
3 Jul
'07
11:51 a.m.
Ray Arachelian <ray at arachelian.com> wrote:
As as aside, there were lots of very strange things on
SCSI busses back
in the day. Scanners were quite common, but there actually existed
printers, and even video cards on SCSI busses. :-)
I currently support two very high end 55" Xerox plotters that are attached
via SCSI to the Sun workstations that convert the plots to something the
plotters can handle.
About 11-14 years ago I was supporting a pair of colour
scanners/printer/copier devices that were SCSI attached.
I'm not sure, but I think that really high end scanners are still SCSI
attached. USB, while convenient, is not a good way to connect a scanner.
The SCSI video card
and ethernet card were useful for compact Macs that had a scsi port, but
no expansion slots.
I've not seen a SCSI video card, but have a SCSI Ethernet for my Mac SE/30.
Zane