Re: Applied Ingenuity card?

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

David Chiu replied:

>"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message
>20040305165007.19482.00001033@mb-m16.aol.com">news:20040305165007.19482.00001033@mb-m16.aol.com...
>: Joe B. wrote:
>
>: >It also has a resistor/LED combo connected to pin 19 of the connector.
>: >So, is it an HD controller?  If so, is it IDE, or some proprietary?
>: >Thanks for your help.
>
>: Dollars to donuts it's their IDE controller.  I think it was this internal
>: Vulcan-like drive that got Applied Engineering really upset with them.
>
>: I don't know for sure, but I always suspected that the principals at
>: AI knew the AE folks--maybe once worked there or something--and
>: decided to take a run at them by not marking things up as much.
>: In short, I think it was a grudge match (like Zip and Rocket), but
>: that's just a guess.  ;-)
>
>I think AI came out with their Innerdrive BEFORE AE and their Vulcan (but I
>can't be sure... my memory is a bit fuzzy.)
>Note that AE Vulcan are "16 bit" IDE, and AI Innerdrive are "8 bit" IDE.
>There were "very few" companies (this is before drive business consolidation
>occurred in the early 90's) that produced 8 bit IDE drives (WD, Seagate, and
>JVC.) AI shipped WD drives with their Innerdrive.

That's interesting--my 40MB Vulcan also had a WD drive.

ISTR AE advertising first, and AI becoming visible some months
later, but I don't have dates...  I do distinctly remember that the
Vulcan was the first one I actually saw offered, and even then
they were backordered for months.

I'll bet someone here knows the dates.  ;-)

-michael

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