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I'm really bummed at how quickly perfectly working and valid technologies just get discarded when the new hot stuff comes out .. take, for example, SCSI. SCSI

I'm really bummed at how quickly perfectly working and valid technologies just get discarded when the new hot stuff comes out .. take, for example, SCSI. SCSI was ubiquitous in computing, its everywhere. I have a 19" case full of perfectly working drives. But can I, for the life of me, find a modern SCSI adapter with ease these days - say, USB-SCSI? Nope. Its just been discarded like yesterdays cheese. Same goes for the Parallel port. What used to be a perfectly cromulant means of wiring up some I/O for quick hacking has now been supplanted by a drawer full of Bus Pirates .. Meh.

rlonstein 11y ago
> USB-SCSI? Nope. Its just been discarded like yesterdays cheese. It's for that reason I've kept around the oddities like the Castlewood Orb USB-SCSI cable and the Iomega JAZ cables. A couple of years ago I used the Orb's USB-SCSI with an external power supply to fire up an old drive and check the contents. Sometimes you just need it. Keep an eye (in the USA) on http://www.shopgoodwill.com/ http://www.shopgoodwill.com/ sometimes these things turn up.
- StillBored 11y ago
  Ebay has dozens of them, although the prices are outrageous. I even see the adaptec usb->scsi converter I had a few years ago. The problem with them is that there compatibility seems pretty limited, especially if you try to attach an old scanner, tape drive, etc.