Re: Applied Ingenuity card?

["David C Chiu" <none@nowhere.org>]

"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message
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> >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.

Could very well be. The dates were sufficiently close that I can't really
remember what they were, and since I have no idea where any of my old Apple
II magazines are anymore ...

The WD drive mechanisms AI uses are all suffix'ed with 'X' (for XT-IDE, aka
8-Bit IDE) while "rest of the world" uses 16-Bit IDE (that eventually
becomes the ATA) are usually suffix'ed with 'A.'

Around early 90's WD blew out their stock of XT IDE drives in some surplus
electronics publications. I have not seen a single once since.