ScuzzBlog: Diaries March 2017
Entry 9th March 2017: Post: 4
Cost of stuff - Post 3
Jaeson
SCSI is kinda sensitive I have to say. What I did tonight could only happen
here OK. I decided to pull out of store my Atari Falcon 030 with built in
SCSI. [ bad boy ] The unit I knew had its own external SCSI CD albeit with a
caddy style cd holder like the CDTV and A570. I checked the Falcon first and
was working fine. Green screen and its own dreadful operating system by GEM
I believe.
Up to the A1200 [ loud cheers ] and I checked the unit number to correspond
with CD0. Placed mid chain between external hard drive and ZIP. Set
termination on ZIP to on... And nothing. It killed my whole SCSI chain. I
lost everything. I rechecked cables. Removed the ZIP, tried it various ways
round. Threw it out the window. [ well nearly ]. Anyway plugged it into the
Falcon and the Atari goes through a system check before it feels safe to fly
off into deepest green space and it said there was an issue with Unit 0
Toshiba which was the CD drive.. So I'm thinking not working. I put the CD
in the caddy and inserted but it just kept shooting it back out.
Never mind. At least I managed to see if the crappy Falcon was working. Of
all the machines I have I just wasn't that impressed that it was. Funny that
its been here for like eight years and I never have turned it on. Like ever.
It had a monitor connector that let me use the flat screen monitor. What I
do find difficult to comprehend is that the Acorns from the same era as the
Amiga 1200 have built in monitor outlets for use with conventional current
monitors. They can show full screen jpgs without any need for memory
upgrades. The Falcon has the monitor connector, the power off a T Kettle
jack and on-board SCSI and its the same size as an A1200. Whilst the 1200
had a lot going for it had it developed the CD technology built in, SCSI
maybe better graphics, bigger hard drives and the conventional monitor with
added RAM as standard I doubt I would have ever bought a PC. The 4000 still
needs the a good graphics card to make it usable. The Acorn 3010 or 3020
which are the size of the 1200 do it without a PicassoIV.
Anyway I still am on the hunt for a CD external.
scuzz
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