On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 10:05:29PM -0500, Charles H. Dickman wrote:
> The non-S-box version does exist though... I have one. According to
> the field guide, M5976-AA has the board spine with straight handles,
> and M5976-SA is S-box.
Nice. I have no S-boxen, just BA-23s and a couple of BA-123s (I should
fix that, though, as I have a KDJ11 board with an S-box handle (from a
communications server)).
> Still, it seems only useful with VMS. I experimented with it in an MV-II
> and the latest openVMS version at the time. I attached a CD-rom and
> also a SCSI disk. I don't know VMS at all and so didn't pursue it any
> further.
Is there enough extant documentation to write a PDP-11 driver? I'd
be thinking of 2BSD or RT-11 as a first stab. A bootstrap might be
an issue (to toggle in), but even a SCSI data disk on a PDP-11 would
be nice.
I wonder how much work it would be to add the KZQSA to SIMH? At the
moment, I'm a little far from any real 16-bit hardware (all I have with
me is 12-bit ;-)
-ethan
P.S. - of course, all this is predicated on the KZQSA being substantially
cheaper than laying hands on an MSCP SCSI controller.
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