9 Mar
2007
9 Mar
'07
6:28 p.m.
On 3/9/07, Zane H. Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
It is definitely good luck. I have a couple Q-Bus
ones, and a Unibus one,
but they're all in my PDP-11's.
I have managed to score a Qbus SCSI adapter or two over the past few
years, but I've longed for at least one Unibus SCSI adapter. I know
they made VAXBI adapters, but when they were new, those were $10K for
disk _or_ tape, or $15K for disk _and_ tape... as such, there aren't
many of them floating around. Lots of Qbus, fewer Unibus, damn few
VAXBI.
I'd love to throw a Unibus SCSI controller into my VAX-11/750 and play
around. Except for the machine known as osu-eddie, I have very little
time on the 11/780, but I have wads and wads of time on an 11/750 -
initially as one of 30 users (8MB), later as one of 1-2 users (12MB).
I think a 11/750 makes a fine single-user VMS "workstation" ;-)
-ethan