Network Storage

A Brief History of Storage Networking

Prior to 1981, storage and systems were connected via point-to-point links at relatively low speeds. Storage sharing was effectively nonexistent.

October 1981	Shugart Associates and NCR, Wichita, agreed to merge their respective SASI and BYSE interface efforts and present them to ANSI for standardization
February 1982	ANSI agreed to accept the interface as a new standard under the name SCSI, for small computer systems interface, suggested by Control Data’s Gene Milligan
April 1982	NCR delivered the first SCSI ASICs. The first working chip is now in the Smithsonian
May 1982	Adaptec proposed an open-collector version of SCSI aimed at the direct-connected storage market
March 1983	Novell introduces Shareware, the first ...