Confirm, please?

From: emanuel stiebler <emu_at_ecubics.com>
Date: Thu Jul 8 16:52:47 1999

---- Original Message -----
From: <kyrrin_at_bluefeathertech.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 1999 9:16 AM
Subject: Confirm, please?


> Hello from the Bay Area! Thanks to Chuck McManis, I now
> have another MicroVAX III board set which will be put to many
> useful purposes the moment I get home.

Which set ? (which boards, a KA650 or Ka655 ?),...

> I have also acquired, in my scrounging travels, a Dilog DQ686
> board. It appears to be a QBus ESDI controller.

Yes. it is an ESDI controller, but ...
there are version of this controller, that can't support the newer drives.
So don't buy disks, check first. (they can't deal with the freq of the
modern drives)

> I've also acquired two new-in-the-box DEC KRQ50 controller
> kits. This is the kit required to put an RRD40 or 50 CD-ROM on a
> MicroVAX or MicroPDP-11. It consists of an M7552 controller, the
> cabinet and cable kit, a bus grant card, the external cable for the
> CD-ROM drive, and an installation guide.

WOW !!!

> I'm going to keep one, but I will be placing the second one up
> for bid on Haggle's 'Antique Computers' section once I get back to
> the northwest (Sunday/Monday).

...

Have a nice trip,
emanuel
Received on Thu Jul 08 1999 - 16:52:47 BST