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- From: vince@sci.kun.nl (V.G.J.M. Stoks)
- Subject: Re: Forbes Magazine article
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.103938.18146@sci.kun.nl>
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- Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- References: <1992Jul26.193920.13519@cheshire.oxy.edu> <mikael.0y0o@terapin.com> <l7djejINN775@aludra.usc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 10:39:38 GMT
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- In <l7djejINN775@aludra.usc.edu> baffoni@aludra.usc.edu (Juxtaposer) writes:
-
- >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).
-
- The new Atari SLM 406 laserprinter has a SCSI interface (!).
-
- >>
- >>Mikael
-
- >-Michael
-
- Sander SToks
- vince@sci.kun.nl
-