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A comment on DB-19: Resurrecting an Obsolete Connector (2016).

Re:DB-19: Resurrecting an Obsolete Connector (2016) by bewilderbeast on Thursday October 24, 2019 @11:46AM (#21345781)
The Atari ST line of computers also use DB-19 connectors for their external ACSI interface, usually used for connecting hard disk drives. ACSI is Atari Computer Systems Interface, similar to SCSI.
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Re:DB-19: Resurrecting an Obsolete Connector (2016) by chiph on Thursday October 24, 2019 @07:19PM (#21350170)
Here's a photo of a 520. It's the "Hard Disk" port all the way on the right.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/Rear_por...

It was possible to hand-make a replacement for Atari's external floppy drive (round DIN connector on the right) because Atari wanted too much money for theirs. Having two floppies meant that compiling went from several disk-swaps to no-swap happiness.

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Re:DB-19: Resurrecting an Obsolete Connector (2016) by mytailorisrich on Thursday October 24, 2019 @12:46PM (#21346371)
The blitz copier used that, iirc. Fantastic noises a pair of floppy drives can make when running like crazy.
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