Reviving a MicroVAX II - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

2 Jul 2000

From: David Williams &lt;dlw(a)trailingedge.com&gt;

It looks to me like the controller is going to be the more difficult to 
locate.  I have a box of old unknown boards, some are DEC, I'll 
have to sort through and see if I have anything of use (either in my 
system or for trading) in there.  Does anyone have any good 
sources for controllers and/or the drives online?  Any suggestions 
on average costs?

Ok, SCSI controllers are easy to find just not cheap.
RXDX3 controllers for MFM disks (RD54 and friends)
are fairly common and cheap.
EDSI contrllers are less common but the drives are fairly cheap.

It's the easiest thing to solve in VAXland.

Allison

On 2 Jul 2000, at 7:57, allisonp wrote:
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  From: Chuck McManis &lt;cmcmanis(a)mcmanis.com&gt;
 I'd recommend a nice ESDI controller (Dilog
696-20 or RQ11D/E
(Webster/Sigma/etc) If you can find a RRD-40 interface (CD-ROM) that  would
 be good to since VMS from CD is easier to load
than VMS from TK50  (having
 done both recently I really recommend CD). If you
can find (good
luck!)  a
 SCSI controller for it then your options are
pretty much wide open.
BTW  VMS
 lives very nicely on a 500 - 600MB disk with lots
of layered
products.  

 Chuck, a SCSI board with one good drive and a CDrom would be likely a
 better choice depeding on what can be found.  I used this combo
 CMD200, RZ56 and toshiba Cdrom.

 Allison

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