Have you ever used the SCSI cable in your home?

SGT Private RallyPoint Member — Sun, 21 Feb 2016 14:38:04 -0500

I used a SCSI Zip Drive as teen. Without it, I was stuck with floppies.

Response by CAPT Kevin B. made Feb 21 at 2016 2:43 PM

CAPT Kevin B. — Sun, 21 Feb 2016 14:43:39 -0500

Zip drives were the external storage solution back in the day. I had one in my government job. Then at some point we transitioned out of them to server storage.

Response by Sgt Aaron Kennedy, MS made Feb 21 at 2016 2:46 PM

Sgt Aaron Kennedy, MS — Sun, 21 Feb 2016 14:46:36 -0500

Response by SSG Eddye Royal made Feb 21 at 2016 2:51 PM

SSG Eddye Royal — Sun, 21 Feb 2016 14:51:55 -0500

Yes, but they are past the standard Ultra SCSI, for Tape drive which I have. The Adaptec Co. Got purchased a few years ago so you have to check your motherboard to see the type of connection you need, i.e. PCI or PCI express.

Response by LCDR Rabbah Rona Matlow made Feb 21 at 2016 7:41 PM

LCDR Rabbah Rona Matlow — Sun, 21 Feb 2016 19:41:00 -0500

In my first PC, a Commodore PC-10-2, with an 8088 proc and 2 x 5" drives, I added a HDD. It was SCSI and came with a controller card that went to the drive with a SCSI cable...

Lots of Mac users also used SCSI back in the day

Response by SSgt Mark Lines made Feb 21 at 2016 9:45 PM

SSgt Mark Lines — Sun, 21 Feb 2016 21:45:26 -0500

The wonderful "System Cannot See It" interface. In the Windows 98SE days, I was running 2 SCSI IBM 250gb Deskstars in a RAID configuration. I had Windows installed onto it. Between that, a Pentium 3, 64mb of RAM, and a RIVA TnT2 graphics card, I had one of the fastest gaming rigs in the BEQ! I also used an external SCSI Zip drive as my mass storage device, because CD-Writers slow and very expensive. This setup worked great until one of the Desktars started to give me its patented "Death Click". There is a reason we started calling them "Deathstars"

Response by PV2 Christopher Hudetz made Feb 22 at 2016 2:02 AM

PV2 Christopher Hudetz — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 02:02:12 -0500

A long time ago (1980's)

Response by SSG Laureano Pabon made Feb 22 at 2016 8:24 AM

SSG Laureano Pabon — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 08:24:15 -0500

Not a Zip Drive, rather is a Hard drive and that was when I was in school for my A+ only never used it out side of that.

Response by CPT Enrique M. made Feb 22 at 2016 12:39 PM

CPT Enrique M. — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 12:39:48 -0500

heck yes, I remember oh man must get a SCSI controller I bought a 10k rpm HD cheap. Little did I know that the SCSCI boards I was looking at costed around $400-$600.. lol

anyhow I used scsi for a bit.. But hated it when it came to installing them on Windows. Either the drivers didn't work , or it did work but somehow windows kept loosing it. ( lucky I never used it as a primary controller lol)

Response by Cpl Private RallyPoint Member made Feb 24 at 2016 9:21 PM

Cpl Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 21:21:27 -0500

Once upon a time, I was a system engineer for a high availability SCSI peripherals manufacturer... I used to use a RISC based Laptop called a tadpole, that had ultra wide single ended native on the board. It was pretty useless but was cool conversation starter...