22 Jul
2010
22 Jul
'10
1:48 p.m.
On 7/21/10, Jim Leonard <trixter at oldskool.org> wrote:
I'm a former employee ("Jim Leonard" in
the big credits page in the
front of the manual).
Nice. I always find it interesting to learn what present list members
were up to in former lives.
That version of Coherent runs on 286s with minimum
640KB and up to 16MB
of RAM. It will only work with MFM, RLL, and SCSI controllers, so be
sure to read the documentation before wondering why it doesn't see your
IDE drive.
I'm guessing that it only supports certain MFM controllers, not the WD
1003 then?
If I were to take this for a spin, I could probably come up with an
Adaptec 1542A (guessing it won't work with a 1542C).
It's been 18 years since I provided technical
support, so don't hold
your breath ;-)
Heh... so far, nobody has asked me for COMBOARD support (the last
paying customer rolled off support in Jan 1995) but I have picked up a
COMBOARD or two from list members (we made 20X as many Unibus boards
as Qbus boards, so I'm always interested if someone has a Qbus
COMBOARD to send back home - I don't have many).
-ethan