Just what I don't need - a big, juicy target in Eric's message! 1. there'll be 100 million desktops sitting useless by 2010 2. if you buy an external Firewire HDD, you get an IDE drive with a FW cable (so it's not a FW HDD, is it?) 3. I found out recently that an IDE and SCSI HDD differ only in the logic/controller board - a drum is a drum, same for the cylinder, spindle, etc. SCSI was too expensive, so IDE was born.
I have to go, now. Maybe somebody else can prolong this. Cheers George --- "Eric B. Richardson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 1:32 PM -0700 9/12/02, George Mogiljansky wrote: > >Really, Eric, computers are meant to be compatible > - > >else where's the reason for computing (with > apologies > >to Shakespeare or similar) > > Get a clue, George. The drivers are made by the > companies that are > interested in selling the peripherals to the people > that have a > computer, not by the computer manufacturer. It has > generally been > true on Apple's side, and on the Windows side. Don't > complain to > Apple if the peripherals aren't keeping up. The > reality is that OS X > Unix underpinning and other things means that a Mac > automatically > sees a lot of peripherals that require drivers in > Windows. I require > a driver to see my Zip drive, but not in my Macs. I > require a driver > to see my camera, but not in my Macs. It's like the > woman said on the > switch ad, Who wants to spend Xmas afternoon > searching for drivers. I > plugged in my camera and it was good to go. I saved > Xmas. > > A lot of us lost out when peripheral connections > moved from > serial/parallel/SCSI to firewire and ATA and USB. > And that is a > harder thing to do than rewrite a driver, you have > to buy new > equipment or buy expensive little doohickey > convertors. > > But guess what? They are better standards, and the > industry is better > off for it. I lost one of my last SCSI peripherals > just a year or so > ago, when I unplugged it accidentally while the > power was on. I can > plug and unplug FW/USB stuff all day long without > ever losing it. > > I backed up 5 gigs with Retrospect to a SCSI drive, > not thinking > recently. Guess how long it took? it was a perfect > backup, but it > took 4 days! (I had my iBook to cover; after I > noticed how long it > was taking I just wanted to see how long it would > go). I can back up > 5 gigs to a firewire in a small fraction of the > time. And SCSI is a > whole lot faster than the old windows standards for > data transfer > (before ATA; of course UltraWide SCSI still beats > ATA doesn't it?). > > I lost my Apple II stuff when I switched to Mac. If > I was a Windows > user, I would have had to upgrade a half dozen more > times in the last > 16 years than I did. My Apple II outperformed IBM > PC's on DOS, my > SE30 outperformed most Windows machines until I had > to upgrade it to > get some of the Java stuff and streaming media that > was beginning in > 96, and my beige G3 is still better than my Windows > machine I bought > for more money 4 years later. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! News - Today's headlines http://news.yahoo.com -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
