IDE is just the ISA bus across a tiny cable to talk to the controller on the drive PCB, so cables are just there for convenience.
We could have just been mounting hard drives in ISA slots!
And we did! HardCards! But we could have had it more.
Foone🏳️⚧️ on Nostr: There's an alternate world where we still got IDE but there were never IDE cables. ...
There's an alternate world where we still got IDE but there were never IDE cables.
IDE is just the ISA bus across a tiny cable to talk to the controller on the drive PCB, so cables are just there for convenience.
We could have just been mounting hard drives in ISA slots!
And we did! HardCards! But we could have had it more.
IDE is just the ISA bus across a tiny cable to talk to the controller on the drive PCB, so cables are just there for convenience.
We could have just been mounting hard drives in ISA slots!
And we did! HardCards! But we could have had it more.