12 Jan
2009
12 Jan
'09
12:25 p.m.
Rich Alderson wrote:
From: jim s
Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2009 8:54 PM
speaking of XLK TOAD.... anyone have any idea how many of
these things were made ? Any idea how many are still out there
to be found ?
They look pretty cool... and other than an emulator, I do believe the
(physically) smallest 10 to be had, no ?
-- Curt
The HVD bus is designed such that if you plug it
into a SE bus it will
go into reset and go passive. There is a signal DIFFSNS on the HVD that
will disable the bus. Not good, but better than nothing if you mess up
and plug them together.
I don't think so. The XKL Toad-1 was designed with FASTWIDE differential SCSI,
and any single-ended peripheral that got connected accidentally was guaranteed
to lose the magic smoke and go off to live with <insert $DEITY here>. We were
in complete accordance with the SCSI specs.
Rich Alderson
Server Engineer, PDPplanet Project
Vulcan, Inc.
505 5th Avenue S, Suite 900
Seattle, WA 98104
mailto:RichA at vulcan.com
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