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From: CLASSICCMP_at_trailing-edge.com <CLASSICCMP_at_trailing-edge.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Friday, November 26, 1999 3:51 PM
Subject: Re: Whats the screwiest thing you collect?
>>The SCSI<->SMD configuration still eludes me, however. I know
>>they exist (Adaptec ACB-55xx), though I've never seen one.
I had to buy on of those in 1990 as I recommended we take the SMD drives we
had and port them to the MacIntosh servers. The interface worked well but
had # of head limitations.
>
>I believe the Adaptec boards are what were bolted onto the Fujitsu
>SMD drives I saw with a SCSI controller on them. I want to say that I've
>seen some OMTI ones too, but those may have been SASI.
>
>At one point I had a Pertec Formatted <- SCSI bridge, but it never
>interacted well with the hardware I wanted to use it with so it got
>traded away.
>
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