Mail Archives: opendos/1997/09/17/14:16:47
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In message <97Sep17.195452gmt+0100 DOT 11650 AT internet01 DOT amc DOT de> Christopher Croughton writes:
>
> > SCSI controller is the thing i need _anyways_. And you can buy it *much*
> > cheaper.
>
> As I said, I don't need one for anything else. The only peripherals on
> the PC are video (PCI bus), serial and parallel ports (on the motherboard),
> mouse (you can't convince me a mouse needs SCSI!) and MIDI interface,
> plus the hard and floppy disks and a "flopy-tape" streamer (QIC-20).
Floppy tape! Pfff...
> > I have a couple of VAXen and a Macintrash.
>
> VAXen used to be good when they came out. Or are these the microVAXen?
MicroVAXen,sure. I don't have enough place at home to keep big ones ;)
VAXen are always good. Forever. DEC still does manufacture them.
> > There still are *small* tape streamers ;)
>
> Which fit quite well on the cheap (free) floppy interface,
It is _slow_! I have one.. I will replace it with SCSI asap. It is even
slower than QIC-02. Actually it is n _times_ slower!
> or even the
> parallel port.
Brrr..
> It's only the big fast ones designed for commercial users
> which need SCSI, and they are expensive.
I am pure non-commercial SCSI user ;).
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