[Coco] Remembering your CoCo Repacks

[Bruce W. Calkins]

On 10/31/22 11:19, Allen Huffman via Coco wrote:
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>> On Oct 31, 2022, at 7:32 AM, Francis Swygert via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
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>> My main point is that with even IDE drives being hard to find, there are still many SCSI drives available under $100 that would be suitable for a CoCo (I checked NewEgg.com). I really liked
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> I had no idea SCSI survived. I have noticed some of my USB devices identify as SCSIsomething in my Mac, so the protocol seems to be alive and well. Interesting. I wonder how much faster using a physical SCSI would be versus the modern SD card interfaces and such. Can we even use the speed? An SD card certainly has more storage than we could ever use.
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SCSI has gone through several iterations. 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCSI>  I have not followed comparability 
between the generations however.  I did once connect a SCSI 1 drive to 
my Disto hard drive interface.  It was limited to the accessing the 
first 256 bytes of the 512 byte granules.  I never did find a way to see 
the other half of those granules.

I generally ran the system with an Adaptec SCSI-2-MFM card with 2 big 
MFM drives.  It is still set up, but has been in storage 18 years now.

Bruce W.