2 Jun
2016
2 Jun
'16
3:13 p.m.
On Thu, 2 Jun 2016, Fred Cisin wrote:
Oh, that was someone else. I'll put in a SCSI CDROM, probably a Plextor or
Pioneer.
MOST of the "2.88M" drives (2.81MiB) drives
could also do 1.4M; same FDC
but needed device driver and twice the data transfer rate for 2.8M.
Heh, 2.88" disks were like unicorns. I heard all about them, but I never
saw them for sale or people using them. That was probably just my limited
view at the time. The 20M floptical in the SGI Indy is like a tooth fairy
riding a unicorn, I've seen pictures, but I've never actually seen one (or
the disks) in person.
> No CD.
Why no CD-ROM? 2/3G storage; SCSI or proprietary interfaces, even parallel
port adapters. CD-ROM was less work for installing Windoze 3.10/3.11
than a couple
dozen floppies.
Or installing SLS or Slackware with 40 floppies. :-)
-Swift