IBM Mainframe update

[Mike Ross]

it definitely had at least one SCSI controller, maybe two (SE and
diff); it was a SCSI-based machine. I can't recall if it had SSA, but
a controller could obviously be fitted...

Mike

On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 2:38 PM, Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Jul 2015, Mike Ross wrote:
>>
>> Now I haven't powered it up since I got it... over ten years ago now! But
>> in my basement I have a no-brand vanilla PC... which allegedly has special
>> internal IBM software on it, which allows the user to low-level reformat
>> standard IBM drives to have 524 byte sectors for mainframe use; it was
>> given to me for this specific purpose.
>> I'll drag it out and test it at some point!
>
>
> In addition to the special software, what kind of disk controller does it
> have?
>



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