"System Technology Associates"? SDI-ESDI adapter

From: Doc Shipley <doc_at_mdrconsult.com>
Date: Thu Oct 21 18:58:00 2004

   I'm sitting on a pair of half-wide rackmount storage devices
silk-screened "RA 8" and "System Technology Associates" on front.
Standard buttons - Write-Protect, Fault, A, B, on the front panel and an
LED readout. 3 characters, I think. There's a Control Data Corp label
on top of the box, but the model label on the side is STA. Model RA8-1100.

   Open PSU inside, and a logic board that converts the SDI I/O to talk
to 2 Maxtor XT-8760-E ESDI drives.

   I can't find any mention of these puppies on Google. STA is
apparently still operating as an HP VAR, but their site is less than
useless.

   So, has anybody ever seen one?


        Doc
Received on Thu Oct 21 2004 - 18:58:00 BST