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Article #992SCSI available yet?
From: Rex Ballard
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 1986 01:25
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 1986 01:25
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Has anybody noticed or heard of an SCSI interface to the DMA port of the ST, and if it is available yet? Atari has been doing a great job of blowing competition out of the water, but I am still a little concerned about getting "locked in" to another "Atari Only" selection of peripherals. A number of drives and peripherals seem to be coming out with PC, PC-AT, and SCSI interfaces (maybe they'll get smart and just offer a PC-XX -> SCSI interface and save even more money) I realize that Atari has a real nice hard disk of it's own, but there are certain things (like removable high density storage) that I seriously doubt Atari will even WANT to compete in. It looks like the ST is becoming a defacto standard but I worry about the "Commodore comprimises". Remember those S-L-O-W drives for the 64? Was this Jack's Idea? With multi-tasking available now, it makes sense to keep the options for things like WORMS, tapes, CD-Roms, and Networking as open as possible. Besides, the ST is looking more and more like a "real computer" to the rest of the industry (It's about time!!). They might want to support it, but not if they have to do a "custom interface". P.S. It doesn't HAVE to be made by Atari, but it would be nice.
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!caip!seismo!rochester!ritcv!cci632!rb From: rb@cci632.UUCP (Rex Ballard) Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16 Subject: SCSI available yet? Message-ID: <157@cci632.UUCP> Date: Mon, 30-Jun-86 21:25:49 EDT Article-I.D.: cci632.157 Posted: Mon Jun 30 21:25:49 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 2-Jul-86 04:23:36 EDT Reply-To: rb@ccird1.UUCP (Rex Ballard) Distribution: net Organization: CCI, Rochester Development, Rochester, NY Lines: 28 Summary: Freedom of Choice!