On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 2:40 PM Alan Perry via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Would this have been connected to a CDC Cyber back in the day? I noticed > that this is in Athens, GA, home of University of Georgia. The first > programs that I ever wrote were on a CDC Cyber there (via a 300-baud > acoustic coupler modem at Valdosta State College).
I am not a CDC CPU expert but I know that various CDC SMD drives, especially the 9762 and 9766 were found on PDP-11s and VAXen owing to inexpensive (compared to DEC) 3rd Party disk controllers (and drivers for various operating systems). The drive mechs were also repackaged and put behind modified SMD-Massbus interfaces and were available from DEC as the RM02/RM03 (9762) and RM05 (9766) but they were DEC badged not CDC badged (colors, labels, etc) so you wouldn't mistake one from the other externally. I happen to have a 9766 (and at least one SMD interface for either Unibus or Qbus) but no pack. -ethan