o An ABLE corp QNIverter
This last one is really interesting as I got to thinking about
whether there was a disk (either from DEC or some third party)
which ran on Qbus and looked like something supported by a
KS10...?
I think RM03s are supported by the KS10, and I *think* I have
an RM03-look-similar somewhere in my apartment (warehouse).
If this is true (and if I can find the controller), I might just
be able to get a less-power-hungry -10 system going in the
near future.
Can anyone help with information of what is available?
The Qniverter won't help you with this. The RH11 in your KS10 uses
the Unibus in an 18-bit wide mode (see the Unibus handbook for details
on how the parity bits are chosen to do this), but there are no corresponding
signals on the Q-bus. The Qniverter therefore generates two parity
bits based on the Q-bus 16-bit-wide data bus and subs these in on the
Unibus side.
No 3rd-party Unibus RH11-emulating controller that I ever met does
18-bit-wide data, either.
If you're really serious about using your KS10, there are several
companies (SETASI, in particular) with off-the-shelf Massbus replacement
drive systems. Other companies (like Wilson Labs) make SCSI-to-Massbus
converters. These, IMHO, are the solutions you should be looking at if
you've decided that you don't want RM's and RP's in your computer room
I know several folks running KS10's at home, in one case *two* KS10's
with 4 big Massbus disks and two TU77's. I *did* warn you that you wanted
3-phase power run in before you got your KS10, didn't I ? :-)
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