MASSBUS disk emulator (Was: Unibus controller for MFM disks)

[Pontus Pihlgren]

On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 10:20:58PM -0400, Noel Chiappa wrote:
>     > From: Ian S. King
> 
>     >> Does anyone know anything about the status of the plans to open-source
>     >> it?
> 
>     > I've made some inquries, stay tuned....
> 
> OK, thanks!
> 
>     >> Can you briefly describe what it was? 
> 
> I'm still curious about what it was: was it a stand-alone board with a
> separate power supply, or did it plug into some sort of backplane? Did it use
> something like SD cards for storage? And what was the MASSBUS connection
> like: a set of 3 Berg headers into which one plugged the flat cables, or was
> there some oddball connector that wound up connected to a standard MASSBUS
> connector?
> 
> 	Noel

I recall seing a picture of it long ago in someones online album. It was a 
separate 19 inch box a few RUs high with at least one pcb and a jumble of 
wires :) Obviously in some sort of development stage and I'm not sure it 
was working at that point.

I think it might even be the compaq rackbox shown here:

http://www.panix.com/~alderson/LivingComputerMuseum/07_Storage_comparison_in_open_space.jpg

Of course this is just speculation :)

/P