David writes:
I found an S100 board in a file folder labeled
"IOMEGA SCSI HOST". The
board itself says "I OMEGA HOST ADAPTER" and a part number "AMSEC
670-1185". Does anyone here know if this really might be an S100 SCSI
board and if the IOMEGA we all know had anything to do with it?
The Iomega Bernoulli Box was very early 80's. And Iomega had
been around doing some S-100 and other mini-compatible stuff for
a couple of years before the Bernoulli Box.
Some of their early products were like SyQuest's early 80's cartridge
drive offerings... but as far as I know not exactly compatible.
I seem to recall a S-100 product I once owned called "XOR/IOMega". Don't
know if it's the same thing.
Remember when a Mega of anything was a lot?
Talking about other companies that are still around... every time
I drive by EMC's local office complex I think about the PDP-11 and Nova
EMC memory boards I have. It's amazing, 30 years later and the
logo is just the same, although the company itself seems to have
completely forgotten anything before the mid-90's.
Tim.