-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, James Miller wrote:
>I recently ran across a junked item in the hall of my department at the >university that I just couldn't pass up. From all appearances, it was an >external hard drive. It's called a "Photon 20." It's in a metal box about >1 foot square and 3 inches deep, with two ports on the back for, I guess, >some sort of SCSI cable (similar to a printer cable [NOT the db 25 end], >but wider: what's that cable called, by the way?). When I got it home I 50-pin Centronics. The two ports are for chaining external SCSI devices (you can chain up to seven). At the very least you'll need both ports, because one will need a terminator if you do nothing else with it. >took it apart and, sure enough, it has a hard drive in it - a Seagate >ST-225. An internet search reveals that this is an old, tried and true >20MB drive (info on this drive at http://www.redhill.net.au/d-a.html ). I >guess this device was supposed to allow data sharing between >2 non-networked personal computers. The drive seems to work since, when Not really, it's just a standard external SCSI device. There is no real reason you can't swap it between computers, but the two ports again are for chaining devices rather than compuers. However you CAN attacht each cable to a separate computer if you have an os (like basiclinux) that will understand ethernet-over-scsi. >I plug the thing in and turn it on the drive clearly spins up. This thing >weighs a ton made, as it is, entirely out of heavy gauge sheet metal. It's >in good shape. Probably costed a small fortune in its day. Apart from >curiosity about what's on the drive, I have no real use for this piece of >equipment. Maybe it belongs in a PC museum? I have no idea how common >these were: it's made by "Warp Nine Engineering" in Roseville, MN. I >thought this might spark some nostalgic discussion around here. BTW, what >sort of cable would I need for this thing? I'm guessing it would plug into >an LTP port on one end at the back of the computer. Is that correct? Nope, you'd need a SCSI card like an AHA-1542CF. They're spendy, so not really usefull for a survpc. >James > >To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with >unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. >Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. >More info can be found at; >http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html > - -- You have paid nothing for the preceding, therefore it's worth every penny you've paid for it: if you did pay for it, might I remind you of the immortal words of Phineas Taylor Barnum regarding fools and money? Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQE+hJSj+ZSKG3nWr3ARAoFKAJwOkO+7bLpNTkCeJmmYEy5Tx+3J5ACgueIJ 9QZXMKD4ACn/1+V9X0BW8so= =eqTe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
