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From: peter@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: SCASI or IDE disk?
Date: 13 Aug 1994 20:30:20 -0500
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In article <32i46v$50u@quagga.ru.ac.za>, Geoff Rehmet <csgr@cs.ru.ac.za> wrote:
>I read somewhere (this was probably written with tongue well in cheek)
>that hardened advocates of SCSI prefer to pronounce it as "SEXY" ;-)

Apple.

They ran some sort of ad campaign to try and get people to call it "SeCSI".
Didn't work.

Speaking of which, the Mac is 100% SCSI and is still awful popular. Don't
expect SCSI to go away any time soon.