Probably in a similar, but not quite indentical way to
me.... Not quite
identical, because AFAIK you're not a workstation collector...
Not primarily -- I have the usual Apples, Beebs, PETs, Atom, ZX81, Sorcerer
-- and I've just found a Nascom-1 :-) -- and PDP-11s, but I also have two
^^^^^^^^
Nice!! I have to make do with a Nascom2 and a Gemini (in the network
server configurtion, complete with SASI hard disk interface :-)).
Perhaps I'm not doing too badly...
SGI Indigos, an Indy, a VS3000, a couple of Arcs,
a microVAX-II, a U-Micro
68000, a Sage-II, a DecMate. I'm not sure which of those count as
workstations, though :-)
OK.... Point taken...
Most later workstations had SCSI interfaces for the hard disk (even if
they then broke that by insisting on an ST506 drive on the other side of
a SCSI->ST506 interface, as ICL and Torch both did). Some older
I wonder if it was economics or availability that drove that decision.
- don
workstations (PERQs, Xerox) had a hard disk controller
built into the
(very complex) I/O board, and depended on features of that controller.
Modifying the machine to use some other kind of drive would probably be
harder than building a clean room to mend the existing drive ;-)
-tony