However, Apple endorsed certain third-party products which could be added to the 512K to provide a SCSI port.
Apple did point users to certain third-party products which could be added to the 512Ke to provide a SCSI port.
In any case, a SCSI port is a faster and more efficient portal for connecting hard-disk drives or other peripheral devices.
But, since folks are sitting on it, it's gonna be like SCSI ports on high-end machines in the past.
Macintosh owners have it easier; they can simply plug an external hard drive into the computer's SCSI port.
Connect one end of the "zip" cable to the drive, the other end to the computer's SCSI port.
In another example: a single disk-drive has one physical SCSI port.
It also featured an external 5MiB/s SCSI port.
They all include two Centronics 50-pin SCSI ports, and require mains power.
On the front service panel of each of the mainframes was an SCSI port.