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to: KEITH DOUGLAS
from: SCOTT LITTLE
date: 1997-05-11 14:19:00
subject: Which is the best?

 [ Quoting Keith Douglas to Scott Little ] 
 SL> ss> with a Mustek Flatbed Scanner (24bit color, SCSI), a SCSI Iomega Zip
 SL> ss> drive, an external "portable" SCSI hard disk that can be plugged and
 SL> SCSI stuff is all over the place, and not Mac-specific
 KD> And SCSI stuff -is- Mac hardware.
Stange, I seem to recall there being quite a few SCSI capable PCs around. 
ome
of which having SCSI built onto the motherboard, rather than IDE.
 KD> (HDs, removable media drives (eg: Zip), scanners (given Mac OS
 KD> marketshare in prepress/imagining etc. a company would be very foolish
 KD> indeed not to bundle their scanner with Mac OS software) 
All SCSI HDs I've seen work just as well on PCs as Macs.
Devices like the Zip drives are advertised as Parallel, SCSI and Mac. I would
assume the only difference between SCSI and Mac is the software, cables &
other fittings. Not the device itself.
Regards,
 - Scott
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