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SCSI was that thing your dad's workstation had at work, and the rich kid had on his Mac. I remember finding some older Adaptec cards for an early Linux box and
by bombcar 4mo ago
SCSI was that thing your dad's workstation had at work, and the rich kid had on his Mac.
I remember finding some older Adaptec cards for an early Linux box and they were still worth some change, even 5+ years old.
- Grazester 4mo agoWhen I was in highschool in the later 90's I had an acquaintance that did graphic arts. He of course had a Mac with scsi everything, zip drive,scanner and printer. It was cool and fascinating to me that only knew of the newly released USB, serial and parallel ports for external devices.
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- deltarholamda 4mo agoBack in the day you had to go dig up an Adaptec 1542 or something similar if you wanted a CD-ROM on your Linux box. IDE CD-ROMs were essentially unsupported. Best part of SCSI was the required sorcery. "No no, young padawan, you must put the terminator on the scanner, not on the hard drive, lest your device chain causes the computer to no longer boot." I had a film scanner that would not work on any other SCSI ID that was not 4. Why? Because. Alacazam!
- bombcar 4mo agoI can remember the day I switched to using Linux - the third coaster from the CD-burner that couldn't work under Windows 95 without dying, but Linux handled it fine while playing music if I reniced it. Terminators - now there's something I'm glad are gone, it was always fun finding out that something "auto-terminated" to "help" you.