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- From: baffoni@aludra.usc.edu (Juxtaposer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Forbes Magazine article
- Date: 29 Jul 1992 09:56:51 -0700
- Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- References: <1992Jul26.193920.13519@cheshire.oxy.edu> <mikael.0y0o@terapin.com>
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- In article <mikael.0y0o@terapin.com> mikael@terapin.com (Mikael Andersson) writes:
- >On the Falcon the ACSI interface is removed and there's only SCSI harddisk
- >interface left.
-
- This is true. But according to most (_unofficial_) reports, the falcon
- sports an internal IDE drive. Therefore two drive interfaces. Of course, it
- doesn't sound like you will be able to do much in the way of expanding it
- unless you (like so many have done) rip it out of the small case and put it in
- a bigger, beefier, and more manly AT-case that has more pumpitude than the
- girly-case that Atari will use. Yah - ya know? Besides, you could only use
- at most two IDE drives anyway. Pretty wimpy. (For all you non-SNL fans,
- pumpitude=power and girly=wimpy=underpowered. "Hey Hans, maybe we should
- flex." "Nah, we don't want to break their little-girly monitahs, ya know?")
-
-
- BTW, I am glad that they went whole-hog and put in SCSI-2 - the only
- way to go at this point - but I don't know about taking out the ACSI port. I
- mean, it might be different if the SLM604s had come with a SCSI interface, then
- going to pure SCSI external devices would have been a natural next step, but
- as it is, they will be leaving a lot of Laserprinting users high and dry
- (except of course for those who either have non-atari laserprinters hooked to
- their (egads!) parallel port, or have non-atari laserprinters hooked to the
- ACSI port via host adapter (those are the guys that will whether this ok)).
- Of course, perhaps the wizards at ICD will be able to save their bacon by
- making an ACSI<->SCSI converter (I assume that presently available host
- adapters will _not_ work as I don't know _that_ much about the mechanics of
- SCSI/ACSI).
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- >
- >Mikael
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- -Michael
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