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Re: CD-ROM & SCSI, OS/2, and so on
On Fri, 9 Dec 1994, Sean Chou wrote:
> In other news, I saw an interesting beast in the Tiger ad today --
> an external CD-ROM called the Gator CD. It's supposed to plug into
> either a parllel port or SCSI port and works with DOS/Win, Macs, and
> OS/2 (they even said it was the only parallel port CD-ROM that had
> drivers rearing to go). Additionally, it adds a SCSI board, in essence,
> to your system. Apparently, it has an Adaptec SCSI board built in
> which allows you to daisy chain SCSI devices to it, even if you
> are using the parallel port. Interesting.
That was not my understanding. I thought the Gator was a CDROM that would
work with either parallel or SCSI, so you could "step up" to SCSI later.