[Coco] Re: Coco Digest, Vol 32, Issue 53

[Ward Griffiths]

On 04/23/2006 12:36 pm, farna at att.net wrote:
> ISTR the Disto was actually a SASI interface, which was pre-SCSI but worked
> almost like it (more limited but basically the same). It was limited to one
> or two devices though, IIRC... most likely one. I don't know of anyone
> running more than one HD from a Disto "SCSI" controller. I used one, and do
> remember that when making the cable there were a lot of the 50 pins not
> used, and I don't mean just the grounds either!

SASI was good for at least four drives.  It's what drove Tandy's first 8.4 Mb 
drives for the Models 2 and 16.  ($4.5k for the primary with adapter card, 
$3.5k for each secondary, a bargain in 1982).
-- 
Ward Griffiths    wdg3rd at comcast.net

The people of Lancre wouldn't dream of living in anything other than a
monarchy.  They'd done so for thousands of years and knew that it worked.
But they'd also found that it didn't do to pay too much attention to what
the King wanted, because there was bound to be another king along in forty
years or so and he'd be certain to want something different and so they'd
have gone to all that trouble for nothing.  In the meantime, his job as
they saw it was to mostly stay in the palace, practice the waving, have
enough sense to face the right way on coins and let them get on with the
plowing, sowing, growing and harvesting.  It was, as they saw it, a social
contract.  They did what they always did, and he let them.
     Terry Pratchett, _Carpe Jugulum_