In a message dated 3/21/03 1:01:25 PM Pacific Standard Time,
healyzh(a)aracnet.com writes:
I've never seen an SMS product that was actually
Q-Bus. The SMS systems I
used to have had all the I/O on a *big* board that the Q-Bus backplane
connected into. The only Q-Bus boards you had to have were CPU and Memory.
I think you got one of those SMS Q-Bus Boxes from me. They are an interesting
system. A small QBus system piggybacked into a SMS Hard/Floppy drive box. I
remember one with 8" drives and one with 5" drives, rack mount approximately
2U in size.
SMS made all sorts of Q-Bus interface cards. I think they might have gotten
their start with 8" floppy controllers but I am not sure. I know they made
serial port cards.
Some SMS cards are marketable. I think they made a SCSI. I would think the
floppy controllers because they supported other types of drives than DEC. I
will have to look into my box and see what I have left.
I don't think there is a lot of support out there.
Paxton
Astoria, OR