8 Jul
1999
8 Jul
'99
12:52 p.m.
---- Original Message -----
From: <kyrrin(a)bluefeathertech.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 1999 9:16 AM
Subject: Confirm, please?
Hello from the Bay Area! Thanks to Chuck McManis, I
now
have another MicroVAX III board set which will be put to many
useful purposes the moment I get home.
Which set ? (which boards, a KA650 or Ka655 ?),...
I have also acquired, in my scrounging travels, a
Dilog DQ686
board. It appears to be a QBus ESDI controller.
Yes. it is an ESDI controller, but ...
there are version of this controller, that can't support the newer drives.
So don't buy disks, check first. (they can't deal with the freq of the
modern drives)
I've also acquired two new-in-the-box DEC KRQ50
controller
kits. This is the kit required to put an RRD40 or 50 CD-ROM on a
MicroVAX or MicroPDP-11. It consists of an M7552 controller, the
cabinet and cable kit, a bus grant card, the external cable for the
CD-ROM drive, and an installation guide.
WOW !!!
I'm going to keep one, but I will be placing the
second one up
for bid on Haggle's 'Antique Computers' section once I get back to
the northwest (Sunday/Monday).
...
Have a nice trip,
emanuel