1 Jul
2001
1 Jul
'01
1:10 a.m.
Ethan Dicks skrev:
--- Iggy Drougge <optimus(a)canit.se> wrote:
> Ethan Dicks skrev:
>
> >--- 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?
Yes. I have it, but have yet to get the ROMs in the
right sockets.
I went through what seemed like ten thousand MVAX2k pages and not a single
mention of any such thing ever being implemented. This list is truly useful.
> 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.
Yep, but then comes PSU, and a proper case. I could scrounge together a hard
drive, keyboard and a mouse, could steal a monitor and its cable (assuming
compatibility). Is there always a dormant graphics adaptor on the board,
regardless of whether it's an MVAX or a VS2000, or would that have to be
added, like ethernet?
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.
Well, this was just a motherboard from a skip, so while upgrade cards might
have been popular, so must the case, PSU, drives and cables have been. And all
that is probably in a garbage dump somewhere now. =/
--
En ligne avec Thor 2.6a.
SCSI is *NOT* magic. There are *fundamental technical
reasons* why it is necessary to sacrifice a young goat
to your SCSI chain now and then. -- John Woods