Difference between IDE and SCSI ??

[John Summerfield]

Aaron Konstam wrote:

>> Are you sure about your time line? I can remember using SCSI drives 
>> while PC's were still using MFM and RLL drives, long before IDE 
>> drives showed up. I could have sworn that SCSI drives pre-dated the 
>> IBM PC.
>>
>> Mikkel
> The iBM PC waas released in 1982 with dissk pased PC's shortly after
> using IDE interface. SCSI was considerably later.
> 

the AT Attachment interface didn't arrive until the PC/AT.

The PC didn't (originally) have disk at all, the PC/XT was the first 
with disk, and it used the ST-506 interface.

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