Semi-OT: IDE & SATA to USB "dongles"

[Chuck Guzis]

On 6/6/2006 at 2:06 PM Billy Pettit wrote:

>Actually, I was thinking about him recently.  The incoming area was at the
>back of 4 Phase, where Apple headquarters is now.  I visited Infinity
Drive
>and parked in almost the same spot.  Deja vu.

At one time, wasn't there an MPI sales office on the other side of the
street (was that Wolfe Road?) from 4 Phase?  Even more defja vu.

>On small systems, a drum printer called the 166 was used; it was a 150
line
>a minute piece of junk.  The sole reason for I remember it, is that is was
>made by Holly Carburetor.  There were some strange bedfellows in the early
>days of computers.

Like Ball Brothers making Mason jars and monitors?

I remember that we bid a project that used some printing terminals made by
Singer hooked to a 1700.  The terminals were truly awful--a spinning type
wheel inked by a felt pad, and the wheel was  banged directly on the
paper--no ribbon..  Carriage return was a large spring, like you might find
on storm door.  You had to start every print session with a page eject
because the typewheel spun continuously and left a nice vertical black
streak on the paper.

Cheers,
Chuck