On Sep 7, 2005, at 10:27 AM, david wrote:
It was quite easy to appreciate the genius of the iMac design while thinking the lack of a SCSI port was short sighted.
Actually, I think that was one of the greatest bits of genius Steve Jobs has exhibited.
It forced a immediately wider acceptance of the USB standard*, ensured that most of the USB peripherals were mac-compatible, and in a large measure paved the way for Apple's current success. The iMac was a groundbreaking machine on many levels.
Had SCSI been left on it, there wouldn't have been any pressure to adopt USB, and the Mac (and Apple) would have continued stagnating.
*We had been getting PC's from Dell and Gateway with USB ports on them for a year or more before the release of the iMac, yet I had never seen a single USB peripheral before the advent of the iMac. Two months later they were everywhere.
As for me, I'm MORE than happy to see SCSI fading into that cloud of dust in my rear-view mirror...
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