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>While the creator of the technology, Larry Boucher, originally intended for the acronym to be pronounced "sexy" in the early 1980s, the pronunciation "scuzzy" was adopted by his colleagues and became the industry standard.

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>>108678900
>thinking people would naturally say SCSI as "sexy"
what a retard
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First time I saw the term in use it was in text and my instinct was to read it as "sucsi", until my coworkers laughed at me and told me it was scuzzy
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How time flies. Back then we joked that their names were "Fox Modem" and "Dana SCSI".
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>not fax modem
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hand me "the connector"
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>sucsi
Good word for a port (hole)
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>At the IBM Global Network booth, Chicago actors Dan Romain and Mary Heitzinger pretended they were "Agents Fox Folder and Dana SCSI of The Net Files' " in order to sell the computer companies sets of products to connect to the Internet and integrate voice, data and fax services.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1996/01/31/selling-their-net-assets/e45a9bac-360e-4e31-9126-63289f750da2/

wtf it's real?!

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