DuoDock SCSI

[Durosity]

I’m ill and bored and for some reason this question came to mind.. why does the full sized DuoDocks have an HDI-30 scsi port? I can understand it on the mini dock and other PowerBooks as they supported SCSI Disk mode, but the full duodock doesn’t.

It seems a normal DB-25 port woulda made more sense.. unless I’m missing something obvious?

 

[Chuckdubuque]

I owned a Duo 250 in the day (IMHO the best of the 68K series with a super crisp active LCD in grayscale, and scarce as hens' teeth now), and my understanding is that they wanted you to be able to plug your portable SCSI devices into the Duo Dock and the Mini Dock, on the chance you had HDI-30 on the device you wouldn't need an adapter. They also sold a HDI-30 to DB-25 adapter IIRC. Apple and its proprietary interfaces. They could have probably just gone with a real DB25 SCSI and real floppy port if they had decided to make the Mini Dock a standard looking chonker the full length the back of the laptop instead of the weird boomerang shape.

 

[Unbounded_Villain]

The most popular device for SCSI PowerBooks was an L-shaped adapter to turn that HDI-30 into DB-25.

I agree that it is annoying and didn’t make sense that Apple had the HDI-30 in the Duo Dock, or any Dock for that matter.