Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 23:14:30 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> Cc: Jamie Bowden <jamie@itribe.net>, Drew Baxter <netmonger@genesis.ispace.com>, Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD trivia Message-ID: <36BD2F46.FBA49C6D@softweyr.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.02.9902060201090.2318-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
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"Matthew N. Dodd" wrote:
>
> On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, Jamie Bowden wrote:
> > I do. Boy did they suck. At least ELC's had an external SCSI
> > connector, SLC's were strictly diskless. I think the iMac would
> > suffer the same fate if the masses weren't so stupid. Why would you
> > buy a machine that you -cannot- add drivespace to?
>
> I'd lug my SLC upstairs and flat-bed scan it for you but that would
> require effort.
>
> Nonetheless, the SLC does have a SCSI port.
>
> And, no, in their time, they were quite nice.
Dayna Communications used one, connected to a 730 MB SCSI drive and
a QIC-150 tape drive in an external shoebox, for their FTP server
for years, until they were assimilated into Intel in early 1998.
That was a great little machine. It was given to one of the test
engineers; he has it at home running NetBSD now. ;^)
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com
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