>I just picked up a nifty little box at WeirdStuff Warehouse for $26
>(I probably paid too much...). It's a "Wilson Laboratories MWX-1000S
>SMD Disk Analyzer", and as far as I can tell seems to be in good
>working order. It has numerous diagnostic buttons, a Hex keypad,
>and a green LED display on the front, and connectors galore on the
>back, along with cables.
>Has anyone seen one of these? Are they very useful? At the moment
>I don't have any SMD disks, but I don't doubt I'll have some at some
>point in the future.
>If anyone knows more about this unit, I'd love to hear about it.
Wilson Labs advertises heavily in _Processor_ and other minicomputer
hardware rags to promote their modern drive systems that replace vintage
ones. In particular, they sell the electronics that will make a single
modern SCSI drive look like many RK05's, Diablos, Massbus disk, or
SMD disk. Thanks to their efforts, hundreds of classic
mid-60's IBM and DEC systems are still running at many sites doing
important work!
The Wilson Labs systems aren't cheap, though :-).
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Received on Fri Oct 16 1998 - 07:50:35 BST