Corporate Histories The Apostle of Connectivity Back in 1995, the computer industry was engaged in a last-man-standing shootout over which interconnect standard would replace slow and creaking old SCSI (“skuzzy”, in computer lingo) for hooking up PC and Unix computers to peripherals. A cauldron of alphabet soup was boiling over among engineering standards groups: FIDI, HIPPI, DQC, HPM, SSA, FCEL, LLD, ATM, SCON, etc. At stake was the $25 billion market for external PC/Unix computer storage, which is growing faster than computer sales. More...