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peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) wrote:

>> Speed tests are largely irrelevant, the home user market wants
>> simplicity, which means Parallel Port.  No SCSI, No IDE.  That's the
>> decisive factor.

>I'm a home user and I wouldn't by anything but SCSI. No parallel port, no
>IDE. Ick, the very idea.

Judging by your employer listed in your sig, you're not a "home user"
per the demographic I was referring to, you're a computer professional
who owns a computer and keeps it at home.  There is a difference here,
the "home user" I'm talking about are those who may or may not use
computers at work, and if they do, they don't know a whole lot about
the inner workings of the PC.  I apologize if I didn't make the
distinction clear, but I couldn't come up with a concise term to
describe the market demographic I was referring to at the time.  

Oops.

Anyway, these users don't want to fiddle around inside the computer
for the most part, and they certainly don't want to be told that they
need another piece of hardware (i.e. SCSI card) to make their new
purchase work correctly.  Parallel port connection is the easiest of
the three, albeit not the fastest.  Plus, one can take it to any PC
and have it work.


Robert Pope
Primal Scream / Terraformer
Organization & Business
primal@vt.edu