SCSI floppies

From: Philip.Belben_at_pgen.com <(Philip.Belben_at_pgen.com)>
Date: Thu Dec 31 04:11:35 1998

Tony Duell wrote:

> I'm quite sure that things like SPARCbooks are normally considered to be
> both laptops and workstations....

Oh yes. Obvious really. My SPARCbook has no internal floppy drive and
communicates with an external one via the SCSI bus. Since it is my
employer's property, not mine, I haven't dismantled it to see what's
inside, but I imagine a standard floppy drive and an interface board...

Some years ago we had a piece of data acquisition equipment called
MDAS-7000. Originally made by Transera corp., by the time we bought one by
Kaye Instruments. This had a 68000 CPU, a UNIX-alike in ROM (called Rnix),
and built in Tektronix BASIC.

The floppy drive on this was not connected to the CPU board. There was a
separate board controlling it, based around an 80188 CPU, that communicated
with the CPU board via, you guessed it, the SCSI bus.

I wonder if the box still exists, and if so, if I can get my hands on it.
Another potential Single Instance machine, I reckon...


Philip.
Received on Thu Dec 31 1998 - 04:11:35 GMT

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