Dennis - I'm well aware of the phrase SCSI voodoo but there was no
voodoo at all. Just people who didn't understand the SCSI chain. In
all the years I worked as a consultant I only once came up against a
genuine SCSI related problem that was solved when I isolated the the
problem to an external drive which the manufacturer replaced. And, I
can't remember a single SCSI related issue with any of the Novell
servers I serviced. Further, manufacturers didn't race to provide
SCSI solutions. Apple had already released revision B of the iMac
before any adapters appeared. And finally, to suggest that people who
were heavily invested in non-supported devices were anti-iMac is
ludicrous. It was quite easy to appreciate the genius of the iMac
design while thinking the lack of a SCSI port was short sighted.
david
At 9:07 AM -0400 9/7/05, david wrote:
Dennis, strictly speaking you are correct - when Apple released
the first generation of iMacs there was no fast USB. Intel didn't
design USB 2 until after FireWire became popular, especially with
Camcorder manufactures. However, there is no question that Apple's
decision to abandon SCSI technology in favor of USB in those early
iMacs was a step backwards for external storage use.
David, that where a lot of people had different opinions. Those
that were heavily invested in SCSI & floppy disks were anti-iMac;
those that weren't, like myself, embraced the future. Remember the
phrase "SCSI VooDoo"? I never liked SCSI because it was so
problematical. However, I do remember a slew of SCSI and serial
adapters plus external floppy drives were released right after the
iMac came out, as vendors rushed to capitalize on the anti-iMac
market. I think there was even a SCSI Mezzanine card for the Rev A
& Rev B iMacs.
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is ... oh, never mind."
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