From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Feb 6 22:14:54 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA11621 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 22:14:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from obie.softweyr.com ([204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA11613 for ; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 22:14:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (zaphod.softweyr.com [204.68.178.35]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA17893; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 23:14:30 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <36BD2F46.FBA49C6D@softweyr.com> Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 23:14:30 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr llc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Matthew N. Dodd" CC: Jamie Bowden , Drew Baxter , Julian Elischer , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD trivia References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message