Tom Gardner via cctalk <[email protected]> writes: > But again if anyone has any documents dating IDE in the 1980s I’d love > to see them
Don't forget the Internet Archive's impressive collection of scanned magazines for questions like this! There are several references in 1989 in Infoworld and similar periodicals. The earliest I could find from a quick search is this ad from CompuAdd Corporation in PC Magazine, December 27th 1988, listing PC clones with "Integrated Drive Electronics fixed disk drive interface" and "IDE fixed disk drive interface": https://archive.org/stream/PC-Mag-1988-12-27#page/n227/mode/2up The ad in the 1988-11-15 issue doesn't mention IDE, so it looks like that's one of the first times CompuAdd thought it was useful for marketing... Cheers, -- Adam Sampson <[email protected]> <http://offog.org/>
