Latest acquistions

From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis_at_mcmanis.com>
Date: Tue Jul 31 15:42:04 2001

Ok so I just picked up two very cool things for the House of VAX. They are
both DSSI to SCSI controllers.

One was a rack mount box containing two CDI-4000 DSSI->SCSI controllers
made by CMD with front panels. The panel looks a lot like the HSC-50 front
panel.

One was made by DEC and plugs into a Storage works storage shelf! That one
is so cool. Turn a storage shelf into a DSSI shelf. Its very weird to see
the RZ29's in the shelf with labels DIA240, DIA250, etc.

I also picked up three storage works shelves, two with redundant supplies
and one with only one supply. Generally they have 4, 5, and 3, RZ29's in
them. The one with 4 has the DSSI converter in the other end. I've got to
get pictures of these up on the web site soon, they are really neat.

I also picked up a bag of third party MMJ to DB25 hoods, they appear to all
be males (so not too useful for my DECServer or folks connecting to a PC
without a null modem gender changer.

--Chuck
Received on Tue Jul 31 2001 - 15:42:04 BST