7 May
2005
7 May
'05
8:18 p.m.
Subject: Re: SMD (was Re: All things ESDI)
From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf at siconic.com>
Date: Sat, 07 May 2005 17:13:31 -0700 (PDT)
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at
classiccmp.org>
On Sat, 7 May 2005 shoppa_classiccmp at trailing-edge.com wrote:
> I'm not sure where (it's *not* the Aug 1976 glossy) but I think
> I've seen a picture of a IMSAI next to a CDC 9762, with the
> implication that they were connected. Don't know if that was an
> IMSAI ad or not.
>
> Tim.
>
> (After 30 years I still think it was probably vaporware... Of course
> there were non-SMD hard drives (SA4000 style) that were succesfully
> interfaced to S-100 stuff.)
I've seen a vanilla S100 box with a CDC hawk on it back around '79.
Seems the interface was partially external and the S100 interface
made the bus interface. The system was not a commercial product
but, the hawk disk and the controller was. A similar idea was
used for RK05 drives to DEC boxen.
Allison