System Industries QBus board

From: Doc <doc_at_mdrconsult.com>
Date: Wed Apr 10 01:44:10 2002

On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Ethan Dicks wrote:

> The arrangement was this...
>
> Some sort of host board -> SI9900 -> one or more SMD drives.
>
> You could plug multiple hosts into one SI9900, but we never did. You
> could plug multiple disk boards into it, too, and we did do that, IIRC.

  Cool. I think I have 2 host boards, the drive drawer, and no SI9900.
  Oh, well. In all honesty, my network & storage setup is such that
remote filesystems are very satisfactory for most of my slower machines.

> Obviously, the SI9900 works with the PDP-11/70, but I have no experience
> with it. I do not know what device the Qbus board resembles. If you
> don't have the 9900 itself, that card isn't going to do you much good.

  Heh. Not to mention that I don't see SMD drives all that often
either. Maybe I'll stick the SI boards on eBay as "Totally Cool,
Ultr_at_R_at_re Mystery QBus Adapters".....

  Thanks to all for the information.

        Doc
Received on Wed Apr 10 2002 - 01:44:10 BST

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