8-bit IDE (was Re: new toy!)

From: Doug Spence <ds_spenc_at_alcor.concordia.ca>
Date: Sun Feb 7 04:42:27 1999

On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Ethan Dicks wrote:

> Commodore used the 8-bit IDE stuff in their Colts (XT clones) and the
> A590/A291 SCSI interfaces for A500 and Zorro-II (no doubt because of Jack
> Tameil's infamous penchant for forcing engineers to design in whatever
> surplus hardware was lying around the warehouse).

I don't know about the Colts, but Jack Tramiel was long gone by the time
of the A590 and A2091. He left Commodore in January 1984.

> -ethan

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Received on Sun Feb 07 1999 - 04:42:27 GMT

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