13 Dec
2015
13 Dec
'15
12:42 p.m.
On 13/12/2015 07:40, Robert Jarratt wrote:
I picked up some Qbus cards yesterday. They seem to be
board set for
a MicroVAX II. However, one of the cards was, to me at least, a bit
unusual. It was made by a company called Webster, and it appears to
be a controller for SMD disks. I was not familiar with SMD disks and
had to look them up. I suspect this might be a little out of the
ordinary, and, possibly, an odd combination for a small Qbus system
to access such a physically large type of disk. Were MicroVAX IIs
used much with such disks? Is this a bit of an unusual find?
Two of my pdp-11s came with large SMD drives, albeit with Emulex
controllers rather than Websters. They're not uncommon. The
controllers typically use large drives to emulate two or more smaller
types - in my case, RM06s.
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Pete