Good haul of old pc stuph

[Chuck Guzis]

On 12/16/2005 at 7:44 PM Scott Stevens wrote:

>Were many of the PC Sound cards that had SCSI adapters 8 bit
>though?  Most of the earlier 8-bit sound cards had proprietary CD
>interfaces and the later ones with IDE are mostly 16-bit.  I have
>a large collection of sound cards on hand, many with CD
>interfaces, and I don't know if any of them are 8 bit cards.

Well, an awful lot of the early CD-ROM drives were SCSI.  I had a couple of
NEC drives that resembled portable audio CD players more than
anything--it's a separatel unit with a hinged top and a wall wart for
power--and a SCSI interface.  I also had a couple of the early CD-ROM
drives that required you to purchase cartridges to put CD's in before
inserting them into the drive--they were SCSI also.

I don't believe that the early IDE CD-ROM drives were ATAPI, either, so
SCSI was the closest thing to anything standard.  My first sound card
certainly had a SCSI adapter on it.


Cheers,
Chuck