Jeff Hellige skrev:
>>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.
The Commodore A590 controller (released in 1987?) also had an XT-IDE
controller on its PCB in addition to the SCSI interface. It was a cheap way
for C= to add small drives into the A590 case.
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Received on Wed Nov 21 2001 - 18:08:46 GMT