An interesting ebay find and what to do with scsi do-dads

Gordon JC Pearce gordonjcp at gjcp.net
Wed Jul 15 18:37:37 CDT 2009


On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 22:02 -0500, Brian Lanning wrote:
> I picked up an external scsi case with 5 devices in it.  Two plextor
> cdroms, a zip 250 drive, and most interestingly a 3.5" floppy drive
> and some sort of memory card reader.  This furthers my collection of
> internal and external almost-useless removable media devices.  :-)  It
> was sold as an IBM branded device, although I knew before hand that it
> wasn't.  But there is an IBM sticker on the back of the case that says
> M/T 1609-F21 and a serial number.  Not sure what's up with that.
> Maybe it's just an asset tag.

That sounds like part of a photo processing booth.  They had a couple of
CD drives, a Zip drive, IIRC an LS120 and a multi-card reader (possibly
with CF, SD/MMC, SM and MemoryStick).

I used to support these a couple of years ago as part of IBM's retail
POS helldesk in Greenock.

Gordon



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