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From: daveh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Dave Huang)
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Subject: Re: ADB accessories...
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Date: 5 May 91 21:10:54 GMT
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In article <91123.234210JRE103@psuvm.psu.edu> JRE103@psuvm.psu.edu (James R. Evans Jr.) writes:
| I was just curious about these ADB accessories that I always see
|advertised in the Mac magazines. They have stuff like scanners and
|the like which simply hook into the ADB. Why do they chose to use the
|ADB?  Would these things work on the GS if there were drivers to
|support them? I am just curious why they use it instead of SCSI or
|something. I guess when you don't have slots, you have to be
|creative. ;-)

Scanners on the ADB? It doesn't sound very likely, considering that
the ADB bus transmits at around 500 characters/second. Sending those
megabyte pictures at that rate would not be my idea of fun! I'm pretty
sure that the Mac scanners do use SCSI. I know Apple's scanner does,
and so do a few others...

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