[rescue] Various machines for sale

Patrik Schindler poc at pocnet.net
Wed Jan 8 09:47:03 EST 2025


Hello Grant,

Am 08.01.2025 um 14:46 schrieb Grant Taylor via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org>:

> I've seen SCSI floppy drives before.

I crave one. :-)

> I had some HP Apollo 735 or 785 systems years ago that had SCSI connected floppy drives.  --  It was the same bus as the hard drives.

I think many IBM midrange machines did likewise. At least early AS/400's with 8" drives.

> Also, what was the interface technology for floppy drives in older SCSI based Mac computers?  Did they have an IDE interface just for the floppy or was the floppy SCSI?

See other comment.

In terms of PCs, diskette drives were never IDE.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk_drive_interface

:wq! PoC




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