Mystery board and drives

From: Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
Date: Sun May 9 05:58:06 1999

On May 8, 23:41, Stan Pietkiewicz wrote:
> Subject: Mystery board and drives
> In my scrounging trips, I've managed to pick up the following mysteries:
>
> 1) A quad-height Qbus?? (Unibus?) Emulex TU03. I first thought this
> might be a SCSI controller, but a closer look indicates that it probably
> isn't. This board is populated with mostly 14 and 16 pin DIPs, a couple
> PALs, 40 pin DIPs, and 28 pin PROMs. My next guess would be a tape
> drive interface.....

Almost certainly Q-bus, since it's quad-height (all the Unibus Emulex
controllers I've seen are hex), and T means Tape. I'd guess it's a TU10
emulator or similar. What are the connectors like? If it has 2 x 50-way
headers, it'll be a Pertec interface.

BTW, was somebody looking for the Pertec interface pinouts a few days ago?
 I found the ASCII and PostScript files if anyone needs them...

> 2) A couple of Seagate hard drives, complete with a power supply on a
> mounting channel. These are labelled: Equipment No.: PA4B2A, and on the
> drive itself: 975002-001. What are these?? I'm pretty sure there not
> SCSI, but other than that, I'm puzzled....

975002 looks like an IPI or SMD drive number, but it doesn't quite match
any in my lists. Are there any other numbers? What kind of connectors are
on it?

-- 
Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Dept. of Computer Science
						University of York
Received on Sun May 09 1999 - 05:58:06 BST

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