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		rsync 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What happened to Apple's legendary attention to de... "In the early days you couldn't swap a mouse between a Mac and an IBM PC, much less a hard drive or printer." I mounted a 20MB external Apple hard drive: https://retrorepairsandrefurbs.com/2023/01/25/1988-apple-20s... ... on my MSDOS system, in 1994, by attaching it to my sound card. The Pro Audio Spectrum 16, weirdly, had a SCSI connector on it.

sillywalk 3 months ago [–]

The SCSI would probably be meant for a CD-ROM drive. I recall my Sound Blaster Pro had a proprietary Panasonic CD-ROM interface, and at the time, soundcards often came bundled with a CD-ROM drive ( or is that vice-versa?).

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