[rescue] Sun Kit Needed for EE Student Here

[Micah R Ledbetter]

On May 3, 2006, at 13:13, der Mouse wrote:

> I was depressed when I went to buy a new disk for a peecee that was
> about two or three years old and they told me, oh, I'm not sure it'll
> work, that's considered obsolete now.  With my 20-year-old Suns, I can
> get a disk fresh from the factory and plug it in and it Just Works.
> (I'll need an adapter from 50-pin to 68-pin, or for slightly more
> recent machines perhaps a wide-SCSI card instead, but that's it.)\]

Where the hell was this? There is no successor to ATA, SATA (, or  
SCSI, for that matter, which is perfectly available on PCs with cheap- 
or-free expansion cards) which has made the old so out of mode as to  
be unavailable or even no longer produced.

- Micah