3 Sep
2006
3 Sep
'06
11:10 p.m.
On 9/4/2006 at 5:36 PM Ethan Dicks wrote:
My recollection of the era was seeing the HD50 first on
the
NeXT. Dunno how that relates to the timing of the second
machine I saw with one, the SPARC 1, but those are just
the two platforms I remember being first with it.
I first saw an HD50 on an ISA SCSI card sometime before the NeXT came out.
I used the thing for an internal SCSI drive, but I recall looking at the
connector on the bracket and asking myself "What the heck is this?". I
wish I could remember which card that was--it definitely wasn't Adaptec.
The DB25 isn't the "narrowest" connector used for SCSI--the Atari ST use a
19-pin DIN for its version of SCSI (ACSI) It wasn't exactly SCSI but it
was very close.
Cheers,
Chuck