07-04-15 07:46 TOM WALKER wrote to ED VANCE about Re: SCSI Adapter Startup

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Howdy! Tom,
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 EV>SATA Hard Drives, I guess, must be faster than PATA Hard Drives?
 EV>Even though the signal flow is Serial, which I always thought was
 EV>slower because of Parallel Printers becoming more popular to buyers.

 TW> For many years Parallel was faster then serial but advances in
 TW> serial communications soon passed parallel in speed.

 TW> During my second career after retiring form the Navy I worked
 TW> with Medicla Monitoring equipment. I was involved with seveal
 TW> installs and wiring ao those DB-25 conectors was a real pain. I
 TW> rembember when Hewlett Packard perfected theri High Speed
 TW> serial data net the wiring was quick and easy. The Medical
 TW> staff loved it because each room patient monitor became a
 TW> remote of and other room in the net and the doctor on his
 TW> rounds could check back on extra critical patients without
 TW> returning to their room.

That was a good idea for HP to design that functionality in that System.

73


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