27 Dec
2008
27 Dec
'08
2:30 p.m.
On Saturday 27 December 2008, Ethan Dicks wrote:
It sure would be nice to find a Unibus SCSI card that
looked to the
system like a UDA50 - i.e. - true and proper MSCP emulation. I don't
know if there ever was such a product, but the VAXBI ones I saw years
later were $10,000 new. :-(
My UC18 seems to work like that, and I've had it up and running on my
11/780 with both VMS (a few different releases) and 4BSD.
Unfortunately for you, I'm not willing to give it up (and I only have
one). A potentially easier (and definately less expensive) path you
might try is a Qniverter and QBUS SCSI card, which could be had for
less than $100 each, last I was looking at this stuff. After I found
the UC18, though (in the 11/780 I'm using it in even), I gave up on
that path. 2U or so for a small 4-quad slot QBUS box shouldn't be too
hard to come up with. :) With some trickery, you could probably mount
the SCSI disk in there too, since there will be plenty of left-over
space.
Not all of the "good old days" were as good
as we'd like to remember.
Oh, now that's not something that I'd expect someone in this group to
say. :)
Pat
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