OT: paging MAC expert(s) --- What's a Performa?

From: Jeff Hellige <jhellige_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Wed Nov 21 09:15:38 2001

> > longer the case. In fact, so much wierd stuff goes on
>> internally to the drive,
>> since the controller function is dedicated on each drive,
>> that it's hard to know
>> what is different between two drives.
>
>Too true, again. I blame whoever decided IDE hard drives were good to
>shoehorn into any system ;) (Maybe that was apple?)

        Actually, even the Amiga adopted IDE as it's standard hard
disk interface before Apple did, as the Amiga 4000 (1992) came out
roughly two years ahead of the Performa 630 (1994). Tandy was using
the 8bit version of the IDE interface in it's SL/TL series machines
as early as 1989, though only 4 drives were ever manufactured that
were compatible with it.

        Jeff
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