On Sep 7, 2005, at 2:19 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Sep 7, 2005, at 10:27 AM, david wrote:
It was quite easy to appreciate the genius of the iMac design
while thinking the lack of a SCSI port was short sighted.
Had SCSI been left on it, there wouldn't have been any pressure to
adopt USB, and the Mac (and Apple) would have continued stagnating.
I don't see it - from what I've seen there was very little overlap
between SCSI and USB 1.1 peripherals. Zip & floppy drives sure, but
as for CD-RW drives, everyone complained about lack of ability to
write at over 1x write speed and people only got them because they
had no choice when they had no other port. No one wanted to use a
USB1 external hard drive. There were few SCSI scanners except for
high-end ones*, and those have migrated to firewire, not USB 1.1.
SCSI's true successors are USB2 and Firewire.
If firewire had existed when the first iMacs came out, putting that
on the iMacs along with USB1 would have been brilliant. I have no
objection to newfangled ports, in spite of my investment in a modest
amount of old-world peripherals. As it was, having no high-speed and/
or bootable port was - and is - a giant pain.
(*I know, there were some lower-end SCSI scanners, as I had and
*loved* one, but they were few. I must state here that I never had
any problems with SCSI, and the only reason I prefer firewire is the
hot-plugging ability.)
Anne
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