9 Oct
2009
9 Oct
'09
11:14 a.m.
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Zane H. Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Ethan Dicks wrote:
What? Do you have a Qbus COMBOARD? ;-)
I think one list member ever has piped up that they found a COMBOARD
in a rescued system - we sold a few thousand Unibus "COMBOARD I"
(HASP/3780) boards over 12 years or so, a much smaller number of
Unibus "COMBOARD II" (SNA), and an even smaller number of Qbus
COMBOARDs (HASP/3780/SNA), and by comparison, a microscopic number of
VAXBI COMBOARDs (HASP/3780).
If anyone still cared about setting up sync links between VAXen and
IBMs, I'd have more motivation to work on these sorts of projects, but
since I never have gotten the DWBUA working on my 8200 after it moved
to my house, I don't really have a ready-to-use environment for
testing our old Unibus products (of which I still have a couple tubs).
Qbus is easy, as is VAXBI.
It was a great product for the 1980s, but I don't really hear any buzz
about sync serial comms anymore.
-ethan
On that box in particular, I should really get
around to imaging the
drive - it has hardware diagnostics already set-up to test Qbus
COMBOARDs (the diagnostics themselves are backed up 3 ways, but not in
a working environment).
Well... ?Get to work! ?:-)