Re: Applied Ingenuity card?

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

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.

"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message
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: 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.  ;-)
:
: -michael
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