[rescue] Various machines for sale

[Joshua Boyd]

On 1/8/25 21:12, Joshua Boyd via rescue wrote:
> On 1/8/25 12:11, Dave McGuire via rescue wrote:
>> On 1/8/25 10:47, Mike Spooner via rescue wrote:
>>> Does anyone else remember SCSI-attached serial-ports, such as the 
>>> external Magma multi-port units?
>>
>>   Oh yes.  And scanners, printers...One of my CAMAC crates has a 
>> SCSI-attached crate controller.  SCSI is amazingly flexible, both the 
>> interface and the protocol.
>
>
> And as someone else pointed out, SCSI <-> Ethernet, of which new 
> adapters are being made as well as SCSI <-> Wifi. Last year the Action 
> Retro youtube channel was showing off a SCSI graphics adapter for the 
> Mac SE/30 to have 3 displays.
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og0_H6RPN1w
>
> I've also seen SCSI used for communicating with samplers (SMDI for 
> Kurweil, a proprietary system for Akai, although I haven't actually 
> seen it in use).
>
> It is a shame that there weren't (at least not that I've heard of) 
> multi-channel (more than 2) bi-directional audio or maybe a generic 
> SCSI ADC or logic capture, maybe a scsi pulse genenerator/counter for 
> use with steppers so a SS2 could control CNC stuff via SCSI.


Ooh, a SCSI -> USB controller (as in for putting USB devices on a SCSI 
machine) would be cool, but painful to create a driver stack for.