Re: Need an EXPERT! HELP

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

Dave Althoff (dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us) wrote:

: :    Apple II, III, or Lisa. There were 5MB and 10MB versions. And
: : that's no SCSI drive at all, even though that's the same cable
: : connector Apple recycled later for SCSI. It's a bidirectional parallel
: : setup that requires a specific interface card for the II or III to
: : use-- a generic parallel card won't work.

: It's NOT the same connector that Apple used later for SCSI.  Well, okay,
: it sort-of is.  It's a DB-25 cable with one of the pins blocked off.  So
: while the ProFile will connect easily and unsuccessfully to a SCSI port,
: you cannot connect a SCSI or serial cable to a ProFile or to the ProFile
: controller.

This is just the same ol' Nathan-stupidity about how some devices use the
same type of connector, as if there exist enough different connectors for
every device ever made by Apple to use a different one. Talking about how
a 1981 vintage peripheral and a 1987 vintage box takes it to absurd new 
heights. 

: :    True plug and pray, and you got bitten. Nobody's innocent in that
: : department. Sorry, don't even think about using that on a Mac SE, even
: : though it's a HD and the cables fit fine.

: Fit fine sort-of.

I wonder where he comes up with some of that stuff.
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