Good Money, was Re: SCSI? card identification

From: Arthur Clark <aclark_at_envirolink.org>
Date: Wed Jan 17 20:26:18 2001

Thanks Louis! Good money awaits anyone willing to sell me a working Sider
hard drive and cable for this card.

Arthur Clark

At 09:11 PM 1/17/01 -0500, Louis Schulman wrote:
>On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 20:39:10 -0500, Arthur Clark wrote:
>
>*I just received a Xebec card of some kind. It is designed for an
>Apple ][
>*series machine, say so on the card. It has a 37 pin connector
>attached to
>*the card via a ribbon cable. Is this a SCSI card? It is dated 1988.
>Any
>*help greatly appreciated!!
>*
>*Arthur Clark
>*
>It is a SASI card (the precursor to SCSI) intended for use with the
>"Sider" hard drive.
>
>Siders came in various sizes, up to 40 megs, I believe. Their major
>benefit (I use one on my //e) is that they came with partitioning
>software allowing you to boot into DOS, ProDOS, CP/M or Pascal. This
>is a Very nice feature.
>
>Louis
Received on Wed Jan 17 2001 - 20:26:18 GMT