On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 4:59 AM, Richard <legalize at xmission.com> wrote:
There's a Q-bus SCSI adapter on ebay right now
starting at $10.
Seems like a good price and these are handy for a VAX system so you
can use a CD-ROM.
item # 360200821918
Slightly interesting that the KZQSA went for slightly more than the
CMD CQD-223/T that it was listed with at the same time.
Has anyone verified that a CQD-220/T or CQD-223/T can be
transmorgified into a more useful CQD-220/TM or CQD-223/TM just by
replacing the CSR decode chip?
I think I have correctly reverse engineered the TM version P22015A
PEEL173P CSR decode chip. I just now programmed a replacement
PALC22V10 for a CQD-223/M and so far it appears that it is functioning
correctly as a CQD-223/TM. (I also replaced the EPROMs with ones
cloned from a TM.) I haven't yet tried booting from a SCSI tape and
installing to a SCSI disk to make sure it is completely functional as
a TM.
I haven't tried this experiment yet with a CQD-223/T to CQD-223/TM conversion.