I've got a SCSI scanner plugged in to a MicroVAX
4000. Using the open source
"sane" portable scanning package, suitably tweaked for VMS, I can scan quite
That 'suitably tweaked for VMS' worries me a little. I am not a
programmer, I am not sure I could do things like that.
In any case there are really only 2 clases of VAXen I would want to try
running. One is the 11/780 and its brothers (11/782, 11/785), the other
is the 11/730 (and I guess 11/725). The former is too large for me to
accomodate at the moment, so it would have to be the latter. And I
suspect Unibus SCSI cards are not easy to find anyway...
The reason I pick those 2 familes, of course, is that there are very few
custom ICs in them. OK, the 11/730 does have the memory ECC gate arrays
used in the 11/750, but everythign else is standard, and documented. The
PALs are not copy-protected.
Mind you, the 'genius' who decided to use DRAM for the CPU control store,
with the result that tyhe CPU has to put in a wait state every so offten
to refresh the control store deserbves a LART!
In any case, thos diesn;t get round the problem (for me) of fidnign a
scanner I could repair.
-tony