The recent discussion on tape backup devices has been timely, to say the least. I just picked up an Exabyte 8505XL 8mm tape drive, hoping to scan a ziplock bag-full of 8mm tapes that were included in a pickup of several Qbus PDP-11s and uVAXen last year. Included with the drive is a bare board that rumor has it came from a Micro Technology 'Liberator' tape backup subsystem. The interesting part about this board is that it is also rumored to be a DSSI-to-SCSI adapter. If true then I just maybe, sorta, kinda, might have a way to connect SCSI hard disks and/or a CD-ROM drive to my DECsystem 5400, which would be very, very nice. Unfortunately, I have no docs or technical information on this board, or the Liberator. Nothing turns up on bitsavers.org, Manx, the MTI website, or a general search of Google. I have tried to query MTI's support group via email, but no reply for a week, and I'm guessing that whoever received that email just took me for a crank collector of old comptuers! ;) While this board isn't really a 'classic' item by any means, nor even the DECsystem 5400, I'd still appreciate any information that anyone might have on this. It is marked "Model: THORN / T/A: 640036-007 REV M / S/A: 640036-001 REV K" and is built around a 68C000 @ 16Mhz, a couple NCR 53C700 SCSI drivers, 3 (I think) AMD 29c983 bus exchangers (whatever they are) and a bunch of logic, and two 68-pin SCA-like connectors on the SCSI side. You can see an image of the board on my mystery boards page at: http://www.rogerwilco.org/mystery_boards/#MTI_THORN If I can sort out the power connection, I might start experimenting a bit through what appears to be an on-board RS-232 port. The big question is: can I really use this to connect at least one SCSI hard disk or CDROM to my system? Thanks! Jared