16 Apr
2005
16 Apr
'05
3:01 p.m.
Hi
Anyone have any info on an 8" hard drive + 8" floppy combo which
appears to be an "SMS FWD 0101"?
I believe this was used with a qbus system. I don't have the controller
card however, just the box and a 50 pin cable :-)
The floppy looks like 8" double sided. The HD is 8" (been a while since
I've seen one of those).
I'd love to find the mating QBUS controller card.
The large card on top of the hd & floppy appears to have an 2901 and
an 8085 as well as other fun chips.
(I just gotta stop clicking on those blue underlined words ;-)
-brad
The odds are there isn't a Q-Bus controller, even though the system
it probably came out of would have had a Q-Bus. Confused yet? :^)
Is the 8" floppy by any chance a "Tandon Model TM848-2E" or "Model
YD-180"? I'm guessing what you have is out of an SMS-1000 PDP-11
based computer. They had their own board for the I/O, and the Q-Bus
plugged into that.
You can find a few pages from the manual (everything I have) at:
ftp://ftp.avanthar.com/pub/pdp11/Some_SMS-1000.pdf
Zane
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