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created by Artful3000 on 02/03/2025 at 15:37 UTC
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Used it with my 1200 to connect to an IBM SCSI HD and Aiwa CD-ROM drive.
Comment by Re99i3 at 02/03/2025 at 16:06 UTC
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Haha, when I was 14 these were super cool and I wanted one. I went on work experience where they called it scuzzy, and I had no idea I just called it by the abbreviation . This happened often as I only read about technology in magazines.
Comment by leventp at 02/03/2025 at 16:54 UTC
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It is still awesome 👍
Comment by AffectionateBill4434 at 02/03/2025 at 18:23 UTC
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I still have mine. I use(d) it to connect to my ZIP drive and a 10 cd-rom changer 👍😃
Comment by jrherita at 02/03/2025 at 16:57 UTC
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is that a PCMCIA SCSI adapter or something? Trying to figure out what's common between the 600 and 1200 Amiga other than that to make this work. That is a cool piece of kit!
Comment by Middle_Inside9346 at 02/03/2025 at 17:22 UTC
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I have a Power Computing branded one. Uses the same software as far as I know.
Comment by NetFu at 02/03/2025 at 20:05 UTC
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Having a hard drive on an Amiga was AMAZING.
In college I lived in a house with three other engineers, all of us going to a top engineering school and also working at night at big turnkey electronics assembly house where we (sometimes) made Seagate SCSI drives. There was no way college kids like us could afford the huge amount of money for one of those drives we built.
Over a 6 month period, we smuggled all the necessary components out in our backpacks, tiny bit by tiny bit. Then we put a SCSI drive together at home. It worked, but only one of us could have it installed in his Amiga (we all had Amigas). I marveled every time he opened any program that was installed on that thing, the way he didn't have to juggle floppies, and it was fast as lightning.
Comment by stalkythefish at 02/03/2025 at 17:59 UTC
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I had one of those! Before that, I had the one that fits on the IDE port. Gave up the Squirrel when I got a Blizzard 1260 with the SCSI kit.
Comment by glasscobalt at 02/03/2025 at 18:13 UTC
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Oh yeah, perfect for my zip drive!
Comment by miggylha at 02/03/2025 at 19:30 UTC
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From my blog yesterday ...
https://www.scuzzscink.com/amiga/scuzzblog%5C_march25/scuzzblogdmarch25%5C_0101.htm[1][2]
1: https://www.scuzzscink.com/amiga/scuzzblog%5C_march25/scuzzblogdmarch25%5C_0101.htm
2: https://www.scuzzscink.com/amiga/scuzzblog_march25/scuzzblogdmarch25_0101.htm
Still use mine pretty much every day along with the SurfSqirrel.
Comment by weirdgermankid at 02/03/2025 at 15:57 UTC
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and a DAT for Diavolo Backup Pro 😁
Comment by jacksawild at 02/03/2025 at 16:35 UTC
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scsi squirrel takes me back.
Comment by tcpukl at 02/03/2025 at 17:09 UTC
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I never realised at the time how to pronounce SCSI.
Comment by MrWhizbang at 02/03/2025 at 18:26 UTC
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I ended up getting a Surf Squirrel myself. One of my favorite purchases for my A1200.
Unfortunately, this was after buying that horrible Archos Overdrive CD-ROM drive piece of garbage.
EDIT: Meant to say Archos instead of Zappos. :-P
Comment by peahair at 02/03/2025 at 18:43 UTC
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Always felt (by the time I had enough money to even think about buying one) that scuzzy was a rip off, compared to PC kit, and in fairness, it wasn’t much longer before I sold up and got a 486.
Comment by Rich_hard1 at 02/03/2025 at 19:35 UTC
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Just sold mine. Very handy back in the day.
Comment by prefim at 02/03/2025 at 20:25 UTC
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Had one of these in my A1200 tower conversion I did. Awesome at the time.
Comment by CommanderCain at 02/03/2025 at 21:18 UTC
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Isn't SCSI the better interface, anyway? 😂
Comment by Az-Bats at 03/03/2025 at 02:01 UTC
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Did this one also have the faster serial port for the modem?
Comment by lazy_eight at 03/03/2025 at 02:15 UTC
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Had a had a faulty one of these, that damaged one pin my a1200. Sent it off to be repaired. They fixed the damaged pin, but the computer came back dead.
Comment by Fragrant_Pumpkin_669 at 03/03/2025 at 08:38 UTC
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I never ever want to hear SCSI. What a nightmare.
Comment by North_Month_215 at 03/03/2025 at 19:41 UTC
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I remember getting one of these with a cd rom drive after I had to return my Amiga Technology Q Drive as it didn’t work! The squirrel saved the day and enjoyed many CU Amiga CDs with it as long as other PD collections.
