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

[Rich Alderson]

From: Noel Chiappa
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2016 8:49 AM

>> From: Rich Alderson

>> Yes, the d/r card is strictly level conversion, and the microcode in
>> the Xilinx does all the Massbus protocol.

> So if you don't mind continuing to indulge my curiousity (thanks for all
> the indulgence so far :-), is the D/R card a daughtercard that mounts on
> the Mesa (my guess)?

Actually, due to the board real estate required for all those transceiver
chips, we couldn't make it all fit on a card that fit inside a PC.  There
is a separate box with the Massbus connector on one side and ribbon cables
going to the server on the other.

                                                                Rich


Rich Alderson
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