SCSI floppies - Wang drives

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Sat Dec 26 22:22:25 1998

On Sat, 26 Dec 1998 Innfogra_at_aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 12/25/98 5:02:56 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> roblwill_at_usaor.net writes:
>
> > I'd say that it's fairly intelligent. In the manual, it says that a 360k
> > 5.25", 720k 3.5", and 1.2MB 5.25" drive were available. It claims that any
> > one or all the drives could be connected. It says nothing about a 1.44MB
> > 3.5", though (were 1.44MB drives around in 1986?). It supposedly can
> >
> The Wang laptop (transportable) was a huge black machine that connected
> several peripherals via it's 50 pin Centronics interface connector terminated
> at the end of the chain. I have never seen a 3 1/2" floppy for it so I am not
> surprised that it had only a 720 available. I don't think they made a 1.44. I
> had a MO drive for them once and I know there was a CD also. You could chain
> more than one hard drive too. Wang had pretty good firmware, so I am not too
> surprised that they are plug and play. I have no idea how well Wang complied
> with the SCSI standards.
> Paxton
>

If they did it like everything else that they made, they did it 'their way'!

                                                 - don
Received on Sat Dec 26 1998 - 22:22:25 GMT