30 Jun
2001
30 Jun
'01
5:37 p.m.
--- Iggy Drougge <optimus(a)canit.se> wrote:
Ethan Dicks skrev:
Yes. I have it, but have yet to get the ROMs in the right sockets.
--- Bill Pechter
<pechter(a)bg-tc-ppp1506.monmouth.com> wrote:
> > My friend is experienced. I only wonder if the card will run without
that
> > quasi-SCSI chip.
Probably, but no TK50, then, and no possibility to
patch the ROMs and
use the SCSI interface as a real SCSI interface (I've been trying to
get back to that project, but stalled when I realized that I don't have
a map of which byte corresponds to which socket).
That would of course be nice, but is there such a patch? I'll see if I can sacrifice a Mac on the VAX/Supra
altar, but I'm having a
hard time justifying the sacrifice of a working machine for a bare-bones
(piranha-eaten is a better description =) 0,9 VUP VAX.
It's not piranha-eaten... you just only have one part out of several
that makes up a uVAX-2000. The MFM cable isn't impossible to construct -
the hard part to find is the 60-pin IDC connector. The other end (hard
disk and floppy) are standard PC components.
At one point, I contemplated building a uVAX-2000 into a stripped
PC chassis. I wanted enough room for two MFM disks, a floppy
and the CPU. I got as far as mounting the uKA410 board into a
clone of the original AT case. Never got it hooked up in its new home.
After that, I aquired a BA123 and went back to playing with Qbus.
Oh, and in reference to your earlier question about "easy", I have never
seen a uVAX/VS-2000 without added RAM. Some have even been upgraded
after the fact, leaving a surplus of 2Mb RAM cards. I do not know
how common the KA410 was in Europe.
-ethan
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