"Toy" computers (was Re: Micro$oft Biz'droid Lusers)

From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre_at_stockholm.ptloma.edu>
Date: Thu Apr 25 10:56:12 2002

> That having been said, I would question how much Apple "discouraged"
> people from using the SCSI port on the Mac Plus. There may have
> been an alternative and Apple may have pushed it over third-party
> disks, but once the stock of strange disks ran out, presuming
> the Mac Plus was still being made, I doubt Apple would continue
> to urge people to ignore the SCSI port.

There were several Plus-focused SCSI drives, too. I have a Rodime 20MB HD
that's even labeled "PLUS" and precisely mirrors the Plus' base (looks like
it was designed to sit under the Plus, so that's where this one resides).
I guess Apple wasn't all that discouraging :-)

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