Scientific Micro Systems boards?

From: Innfogra_at_aol.com <(Innfogra_at_aol.com)>
Date: Fri Mar 21 15:55:00 2003

In a message dated 3/21/03 1:01:25 PM Pacific Standard Time,
healyzh_at_aracnet.com writes:


> I've never seen an SMS product that was actually Q-Bus. The SMS systems I
> used to have had all the I/O on a *big* board that the Q-Bus backplane
> connected into. The only Q-Bus boards you had to have were CPU and Memory.
>
>

I think you got one of those SMS Q-Bus Boxes from me. They are an interesting
system. A small QBus system piggybacked into a SMS Hard/Floppy drive box. I
remember one with 8" drives and one with 5" drives, rack mount approximately
2U in size.

SMS made all sorts of Q-Bus interface cards. I think they might have gotten
their start with 8" floppy controllers but I am not sure. I know they made
serial port cards.

Some SMS cards are marketable. I think they made a SCSI. I would think the
floppy controllers because they supported other types of drives than DEC. I
will have to look into my box and see what I have left.

I don't think there is a lot of support out there.

Paxton
Astoria, OR
Received on Fri Mar 21 2003 - 15:55:00 GMT