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"The Orange Micro card is a Wintel compatible computer in your Macintosh" (1997) (lemmy.ml)

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[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

What is the use for the SCSI port?

[–] CoggyMcFee@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Something is off with the image in the ad, because it says that every OrangePC comes with 2 serial ports, parallel, game, and sound blaster input, which is not what the picture shows. I would expect something like this:

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/ZZYAAOSwjwFlyTE2/s-l960.jpg

[–] burrito@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago

Most (all?) Macs from that era used SCSI drives. I believe that they also used SCSI peripherals like scanners. The inclusion of the SCSI port is probably so you can connect those.