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Alex Pufhal <[log in to unmask]>
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PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 15 Aug 2001 17:42:44 -0700
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--- Dan Ellis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I've been into computers since about 1987.  Right
> around the border line of
> the old MFM 40 gig drives.  : )
There's a drive I'd love to have. I don't think the
average person envisioned ever having a 1 gig drive in
1987 let alone needing at least 20 to do anything
useful nowadays.


> Most of my pc experience has been with IDE devices,
> and as IDE is catching
> up in speed to SCSI and even Apple has converted to
> IDE, I tend to not run
> across too many SCSI drives.

SCSI for small scale computing never caught on as a
standard. IDE has a broader installed base.


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