Around here somewhere I've got a whole box of IDE CD-ROM, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-RW drives of various speeds, most of which are IDE... but I'm probably a far worse packrat than most. If you really want to talk about old... I think I've got a few SCSI or proprietary interface drives as well... IDE took off because it was cheaper than SCSI and more or less a standard compared to the predecessors in the PC world... Mitsumi, Panasonic, Sony, Phillips, etc. Back in those days each one required its own controller, cabling, drivers, etc. A lot of them plugged into the "Sound Blaster" card, which if you got the deluxe version had the multiple connections for the different types of proprietary interfaces... Man, I don't miss that mess. -swj
My people laugh at me because I have things like that around... But since I came from the world of building my own machines I like to have the option should it be required... Good luck with the machine though!
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Let me know if you need any more IDE devices, have a basement full as I maintain machines from DOS on up to present day crap.
ReplyDeleteAround here somewhere I've got a whole box of IDE CD-ROM, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-RW drives of various speeds, most of which are IDE... but I'm probably a far worse packrat than most. If you really want to talk about old... I think I've got a few SCSI or proprietary interface drives as well... IDE took off because it was cheaper than SCSI and more or less a standard compared to the predecessors in the PC world... Mitsumi, Panasonic, Sony, Phillips, etc. Back in those days each one required its own controller, cabling, drivers, etc. A lot of them plugged into the "Sound Blaster" card, which if you got the deluxe version had the multiple connections for the different types of proprietary interfaces... Man, I don't miss that mess.
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My people laugh at me because I have things like that around... But since I came from the world of building my own machines I like to have the option should it be required... Good luck with the machine though!
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