Strange Qbus cards: Data Systems Design and Marconi

Fred, I can't tell you much about them but I recently picked up about 350 8" floppy disks that came from Marconi. They were used on PDP-11s that was part of circuit board test stations. That's where the disks that I sent to Al came from. He's reading them and is supposed to archive the usefull software. The computers were stripped before I got there but I found some of the circuit cards in the board scrap. A few were DEC but most were custom made. I didn't take any of the custom ones and I don't remember if they were made by Marconi or not. They were DSD hard drives on the systems. One of the things that Al (and others) wanted were the drivers for the DSD drives. I found four or five of the drives but no interface cards. That was the DSD drives that I was asking about here on the list several weeks ago. FWIW some of the disks had a Marconi address somewhere in California. In fact, I think it might have been Sunnyvale. I suspect that you got part of the same systems. Joe At 12:50 AM 10/4/03 +0200, you wrote: