20 Jul
2021
20 Jul
'21
5:34 p.m.
On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 4:06 PM Jay Jaeger via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:
On 7/20/2021 6:59 AM, Eric Moore wrote:
haven't
seen ESDI. I would love for such a thing to exist,
thinking of my Apollo, 3B2 and IBM RT/PC workstations.
I?d also love to have one of these, preferably using SD or CF
cards. The Webster WQESD/04 card is a fantastic card, it?s only
downfall is that it works with ESDI drives, rather than SCSI, and
they?re big and loud. :-)
Zane
http://www.datexdsm.com/ESDI.php <http://www.datexdsm.com/ESDI.php> is
what I was thinking of. There are a couple other commercial models out
there on offer, no one seems to have one though in the discord or
apparently here :)
-Eric
I fear these, as well as those shown on one or two other websites, are
vapor-ware. The MFM emulators all seem out of stock, the ESDI emulator
(DWX750) "documentation" is not even a page - just a "blurb".
I had a similar experience with a set of emulators made by Arraid -- LCM
inquired about one of their SMD emulators (
https://www.arraid.com/data-storage-products/product/aem-1.html) and the
response we got was "we can no longer source the parts to manufacture
these, we have a few remaining in stock that we will sell for $10,000 a
piece." We did not purchase one.
I suspect that even if you could find someone to sell you one of these
emulators, they would be extremely expensive. I have never seen one for
sale on the used market. If you find one, consider yourself lucky. If
anyone *DOES* have one of these SMD emulators and wants to find a new home
for it, do drop me a line.
- Josh
11) ESDI
disk emulator
I am not aware of any such beasties in the wild. MFM, yes, but I JRJ