Burnable, patched Microvax-2000 SCSI-boot EPROM images?

Paul Koning paulkoning at comcast.net
Tue Sep 21 11:15:12 CDT 2021



> On Sep 21, 2021, at 12:00 PM, Jonathan Stone via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> 
> The RD53s in both Microvax 2000s are dead. I'm reluctant to buy more 30+ year old rotating media.
> If I'm going to buy a disk emulator, I'd much prefer SCSI to MFM, for the obvious performance reasons.

Emulators presumably act, performance wise, like SSDs.  Given that, an MFM emulator will significantly outperform a SCSI hard drive since it has no seek delays.

David Gesswein's MFM emulator works impressively well and is inexpensive, too.

	paul




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