Macinography 13: The Sexy, Sassy Story of SCSI

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O woe of the early Mac User, for they could not store more than 400K. Nay, such crimes could not stand! It was not the serial drive nor the Hyperdrive that would lead them to storage salvation. Forsooth, it is SCSI that would lead the Mac faithful to the promised land of mass storage. Listen in for the tale of SCSI’s attempt to bring order to the chaotic world of storage.

Sources / Notes:

• CHM Oral History of Larry Boucher
• CHM Oral History of John Squires
• CHM Oral History of Dal Allan
• Byte Magazine Evolution of ESDI
• PS-2.kev009.com: Hard disk adapter differences
• Gene Milligan’s ATA history
• ENDL 100th meeting of T10 group
• CHM Group Note: Emergence of IDE/ATA
• CHM Group Note: Conner CP340 Family
• MacGUI: HD20 setup
• MacGUI: Apple File Server
• MacGUI: Tecmar MacDisk
• USGamer: Steve Golson and the Hyperdrive
• The Computer Chronicles 1985: Hard Disk Storage
• San Francisco Chronicle article on Hardcard
• Xebec OWL SASI Hard disk
• Shugart SA1400 Brochure
• Conner Peripherals history

Music Credits

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Show Art: Coutesy of Daniel Vincent

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Chapter Markers:

00:00:00 - Opening 00:00:37 - A Disk For All Platforms 00:07:43 - From SASI to SCSI 00:15:57 - Apple Adopts SCSI 00:25:24 - A Tangent Approaches 00:41:52 - The Legacy of SCSI 00:54:20 - Outtro, Sources, and Credits