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From: espen@well.UUCP (Peter Espen)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: How tough will it be to hang a hard disk of the Mac+ SCSI port?
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Date: Sun, 19-Jan-86 15:58:00 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 19 15:58:00 1986
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Summary: SCSI hard drives on MacPlus

In article <267@ism780c.UUCP>, tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith) writes:
> In article <2605@colossus.fluke.UUCP> moriarty@fluke.UUCP (Jeff Meyer) writes:
> >Seems that the SCSI port on the back of Mac+ has passed the rumor stage.
> >Thus, a question; given that you have a generic (hah) hard drive (let's say
> >20MB) and a controller card talking SCSI, and a 1 Meg Mac+ with the SCSI
> 
> Actually, you might not need the controller card!  Many hard disks now come
> with SCSI built in.  According to one of those random magazines that
> get sent to companies ( to names noone has ever heard of! ), the disk
> in the Apple HD20 has a built in SCSI port.  I would expect Apple to
> come out with a version of the HD20 that uses this, and hence to have
> generic SCSI drivers available for the Mac+.
> -- 
> Tim Smith       sdcrdcf!ism780c!tim || ima!ism780!tim || ihnp4!cithep!tim

	There are also a whole host of IBM Compatable drives that will
work with the SCSI format. An IBM compatable hard drive at about $500
is much more attractive than a Apple HD20 at over a $1000.
`	Peter Espen