31 Jan
2002
31 Jan
'02
1:54 p.m.
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Dave McGuire wrote:
On January 31, Pat Finnegan wrote:
Could be ESDI... the 'boot monitor' (excuse my lack of knowledge of proper
terms) calls them RA81's (?!?!?). The connectors look like ST-506, which
is why I called them that. I didn't bother looking up that board when I
'ripped' it apart (very carefully) for cleaning. Thanks to Gordon, I'm
gonna be getting a QT13 pertec controller, which will replace the TK50
controller most likely. Ahhh, 9 track tapes. :)
I now have reset the SYSTEM password, and am about to embark on the
journey of re-learning VMS. Ahh, the memories of high-school come
filtering back in...
Any idea if I could put another QBUS KA650 card in here and make it
dual-cpu? I'm doubtful, but it'd be cool to try I think.
Thanks all for the help.
-- Pat
Specs: 8 line serial card (forgot to look at the
model #), TK-50
controller (didn't grab the drive, but might do that tomorrow..), 8-plane
framebuffer, 2x8M QBus memory cards, 2x760M ST-506 interface hard drives,
DELQA ethernet, KA650-B cpu card, (and that's about all I think...)
pics at http://purdueriots.com/imgs/vs3200-back-lores.jpg
and http://purdueriots.com/imgs/vs3200-front-lores.jpg
Wow, nice machine! :-) The ST506 MFM interface maxes out at
160MB...those are probably ESDI drives. And if they are, I'm
jealous. :-) 
