Yesterday I exchanged e-mail with Dal Allan (who gave the CAM committee
reports to X3T9.2). I didn't get permission to post the e-mail here, so
I will summarize.
He said that the AT Attachment project got its name on 30 Mar 89.
He said that WD was the source of the name IDE, but he doesn't know when
it was coined.
He said that the CAM committee meeting minutes and ATA document drafts
were backed up to QIC tape, but were unreadable when it was attempted to
transfer them to CD, so, unless another member has copies hidden away,
they are gone.
alan
On 10/4/17 11:14 AM, Tom Gardner via cctalk wrote:
Thanks for your research which supports my point since all your cites postdate
the April 1989 date of ATA usage by the CAM committee.
Remember this all started when someone (Fred?) posted that ATA followed IDE.
Regards,
Tom
-----Original Message-----
From: Pete Turnbull [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2017 10:56 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: The origin of the phrases ATA and IDE [WAS:RE: formatting MFM
drives on a IBM PC]
On 03/10/2017 01:04, Tom Gardner via cctalk wrote:
Unfortunately there is no documentation to support Pete's recollection - if
there is any I would like to see it.
Well, actually, there is, though not for quite as early as I had those conversations. The company
I was referring to was HCCS Associates, and although I can't find a copyright date for their
original software, I can find pictures of the interfaces, clearly labelled "IDE", and one
version of the software, called "IDE Manager". It's version 2.1, dated February 1990.
They used mostly, but not exclusively, Connor drives, by the way.
http://chrisacorns.computinghistory.org.uk/Software.html#H
http://chrisacorns.computinghistory.org.uk/32bit_UpgradesH2Z/HCCS_IDE_A3000.html
Another I can find is another company who made an interface for a slightly
later machine from the same family, and one version does carry a date, also
1990.
http://chrisacorns.computinghistory.org.uk/32bit_UpgradesH2Z/ICS_ideA.html
The Watford Electronics IDE interface (called WE-IDE) for the same series of
machines was released about the same time. The software is dated September
1989. They used Western Digital drives, amongst others.
http://chrisacorns.computinghistory.org.uk/Software.html#W
So there's clear proof that at least three companies in the UK were using the
term IDE before (or at least by) 1990. I never heard it called anything else
in that timeframe.
-----Original Message-----
From: Pete Turnbull [mailto:[email protected]]
Nope. I recall conversations with a small-scale developer in the UK
who was creating addons and accessories for the company I worked for
(Acorn
Computers) in 1987-1988, and he was touting IDE
--
Pete
Pete Turnbull
