PDP 11 Victory!

From: Roger Merchberger <zmerch_at_30below.com>
Date: Sat Feb 12 22:18:03 2005

Rumor has it that Vintage Computer Festival may have mentioned these words:

>Oh, I am stoked.

Schweet!

>I love PDP-11's!!!
>
>Next projects:
>
>- find a SCSI card so I can hook up SCSI devices (ZIP drive)

Dunno how common knowledge this is, but Zip drives *require* parity; which
is why they can't be used with earlier CoCo SCSI interfaces - as those
didn't support it. (they are also only capable of SCSI ID 5 or 6, and a few
early CoCo SCSI interfaces only supported ID 0-4...) I suppose the SCSI ID
stuff could be modded pretty easily, tho.

( The new one from Cloud 9 Tech: http://www.cloud9tech.com/ does support
parity -- and they just released their IDE interface as well.)

If there's several different interfaces, and some support parity and some
do not, make sure you get one that does.

Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger

--
Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- SysAdmin, Iceberg Computers
zmerch_at_30below.com
What do you do when Life gives you lemons,
and you don't *like* lemonade?????????????
Received on Sat Feb 12 2005 - 22:18:03 GMT

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