26 Nov
1999
26 Nov
'99
2:01 p.m.
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From: CLASSICCMP(a)trailing-edge.com <CLASSICCMP(a)trailing-edge.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Friday, November 26, 1999 3:51 PM
Subject: Re: Whats the screwiest thing you collect?
>The SCSI<->SMD configuration still eludes me,
however. I know
>they exist (Adaptec ACB-55xx), though I've never seen one.
I had to buy on of those in 1990 as I recommended we take the SMD drives we
had and port them to the MacIntosh servers. The interface worked well but
had # of head limitations.
I believe the Adaptec boards are what were bolted onto the Fujitsu
SMD drives I saw with a SCSI controller on them. I want to say that I've
seen some OMTI ones too, but those may have been SASI.
At one point I had a Pertec Formatted <- SCSI bridge, but it never
interacted well with the hardware I wanted to use it with so it got
traded away.
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