4 Nov
2013
4 Nov
'13
9:39 a.m.
A friend of mine gave me a MicroVAX II a few weeks ago and I'd finally
gotten around to opening it up, cataloguing its cards, the initial checks
and finally firing it up into a working copy of VMS.
The machine has four M7552/KRQ50 controllers for the RRD50 CDROM drives,
each of which appears to support four individual drives.
Would it be normal to hang 16 RRD50s off a single VAX, or have I got
something a bit odd?
My friend suggests an optical media fileserver as a guess, which makes
sense, but not being from the generation of which these machines were
actually in use, I wasn't sure if such things existed. Seems like a hell
of a waste of a VAX, but perhaps I'm underestimating how uncommon these
were.
Anyways. Suggestions and opinions appreciated.
- JP