Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!parc!biosci!agate!iat.holonet.net!bwilliam From: bwilliam@iat.holonet.net (Bill Williams) Subject: Re: Which CD-ROM / advantage to SCSI Message-ID: Organization: HoloNet National Internet Access System: 510-704-1058/modem References: <2st9ak$pi1@char.vnet.net> Date: Wed, 8 Jun 1994 15:53:41 GMT Lines: 15 Always get SCSI if you can. SCSI is the future. SCSI allows external devices to be attached to your computer (DAT, CD-ROM, Optical, Scanners, Media jukeboxes, Hard Disks, etc). IDE and future proposed IDE **DO NOT PROVIDE EXTERNAL CONNECTION CAPABILITIES** Therefore its SCSI or nothing. Macs have had SCSI for almost 10 years now and there are countless interesting peripherals Mac users routinely use. The most common being a peronal external hard disk or two that they carry around with them to shuttle data between work and home. Bill