9 Oct
2009
9 Oct
'09
12:42 p.m.
On 9 Oct 2009 at 14:14, Ethan Dicks wrote:
I think one list member ever has piped up that they
found a COMBOARD
in a rescued system - we sold a few thousand Unibus "COMBOARD I"
(HASP/3780) boards over 12 years or so, a much smaller number of
Unibus "COMBOARD II" (SNA), and an even smaller number of Qbus
COMBOARDs (HASP/3780/SNA), and by comparison, a microscopic number of
That brings back a bunch of ugly memories. Back around 1983, we had
an 11/750 on lease running BSD and a leased 9600 bps line (Bell 208
modem). The dealer who supplied the system did so with the assurance
that he could provide bisync/HASP support on BSD. I don't recall
what the board was in the 750, but I seem to remember it was
something like a DU-11 (it's been far too long). The vendor brought
in everyone he could hire to fix it and eventually gave up. At $5K
per month for a leased line sitting idle, we were none too happy.
I think we eventually ended up using an IBM PC-XT with a sync adapter
to do the job.
--Chuck