Upon the date 08:04 PM 7/28/99 -0700, Mike Ford said something like:
<Mike quoted from a msg posted by Chris Fandt: >
>>>a few hundred 9-track reels), and it is also motivated by the fact that
>>>CD-ROM drives are easily connected to Q-bus or Unibus PDP-11's through
>>>a SCSI host adapter. I frequently make PDP-11 filesystem CD-ROM's
>>
>>SCSI host adaptor?!? Whazzat??!
>>
>>Seriously, although this is actually the ideal way for many of us to go
>>with enjoying our Q-bus or/and Unibus PDP-11's (MicroVAXen et al, too), we
>>cannot easily find such host adaptors nor could justify paying a couple
>>hundred (or more) for them from the used market. For me, this is a hobby.
>
>Can't you just network a PC with a CDROM drive to the old DEC stuff?
>
That is another very good way to get SIG stuff into our PDP's. Actually,
with this, a CDROM is not needed. Just download files from metalab into the
PC and squirt them thru the network into the PDP. But once again, I would
have to find parts, etc. to setup the PDP's onto a network.
Regards, Chris
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Received on Thu Jul 29 1999 - 08:47:13 BST