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From: stuckey@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Anthony J. Stuckey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Hard Drives
Message-ID: <1991Apr29.134632.694@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 29 Apr 91 13:46:32 GMT
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ehsu@husc9.harvard.edu (Eric Hsu) writes:

>In article <6169@vela.acs.oakland.edu> mkheintz@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Michael Heintz) writes:
>>BTW: The SCSI that apple uses (including Apple II and Macintosh)
>>is, as I understand it, not quite standard.  SCSI devices that
>>work on the  Mac will work on the II, but IBM SCSI and Apple SCSI
>>are not interchangeable (again, that is what I have heard.. I
>>have never tried it).
>I understand the Mac Plus uses nonstandard SCSI, but other Macs work fine
>with ordinary SCSI. 

THere are two types of SCSI connections.  Syncrhonous and Async.  Both of them
are standard, but hte mac Plus uses one and all other macs use the other.
(sorry, it's been too long since i heard which)

-- 
Anthony J. Stuckey
stuckey@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu