VAXBI SCSI?

From: Ethan Dicks <dickset_at_amanda.spole.gov>
Date: Tue Oct 12 15:40:46 2004

On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 01:40:03PM -0700, Gene Buckle wrote:
> I may (and I emphisize _may_) be getting a VAX 6000/610 for the cost of
> shipping it. Is there a SCSI adapter available for this machine? I'd
> like to avoid running RA series drives if I can avoid it.

There were VAXBI SCSI cards available at one time, but I have never
used one, and I can't recall the vendor's name. My recollection was
that MSRP was $10K for either MSCP _or_ TMSCP, $20K for the firmware
that did both.

I'd love one, but I think you'd just about have to find a machine that
already had one inside.

I _think_ they were never popular because people typically had a cluster
and HSC storage boxes or locally attached disk on a KDB50 (my 8200 came
(to my employer) used in 1989 for about $12K w/KDB50 and we threw on an
old RA81).

Last thing I did to it was try to get either a DEBNI or DEBNT working.
No dice. It was enough months ago that I forget what was up.

-ethan

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