> From: Rich Alderson
> Yes, the d/r card is strictly level conversion, and the microcode in
> the Xilinx does all the Massbus protocol.
So if you don't mind continuing to indulge my curiousity (thanks for all the
indulgence so far :-), is the D/R card a daughtercard that mounts on
On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 7:44 PM, Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 06:26:06PM +, Rich Alderson wrote:
>>
>> There have been 2 generations of Massbus Disk Emulator (MDE) at LCM. The
>> one of which people have seen pictures was the first generation, created
That should be in the site prep documents, or the installing documentation.
On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 1:44 AM, Pontus Pihlgren
wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 06:26:06PM +, Rich Alderson wrote:
> >
> > There have been 2 generations of Massbus Disk Emulator (MDE) at LCM.
On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 06:26:06PM +, Rich Alderson wrote:
>
> There have been 2 generations of Massbus Disk Emulator (MDE) at LCM. The
> one of which people have seen pictures was the first generation, created
> when there were only 2 people working on the collection which became the
>
From: Noel Chiappa
Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2016 11:51 AM
>> From: Rich Alderson
>> Data was transferred via FTP over a 100baseT crossover cable connected
>> to a Slackware server; the Rabbit was able to keep up with 4 drives at
>> this speed
> Were the bits actually stored on the Slackware
On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 11:33 AM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
> I would consider one for my VAX/11-750 since Unibus disk emulation
> solutions aren't plentiful (but I think I'd have to get a DR750
> (L0014) first).
Correction: RH750 (L0007). The DR750 is a CMI-bus "interprocessor
On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 9:39 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> > From: Paul Birkel
>
> > Maybe there are three ribbon cables back there
>
> We _definitely_ need to put these things in 'production'.
I would consider one for my VAX/11-750 since Unibus disk emulation
> From: Paul Birkel
> Maybe there are three ribbon cables back there
Sure looks like it, and running to a standard MASSBUS connector, to boot.
(Not that I have any use for the latter - absolutely no MASSBUS cables at
all. But one could just run flat cables from this, to one's
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Pihlgren
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Subject: Re: MASSBUS disk emulator (Was: Unibus controller for MFM
I've made some inquries, stay tuned
On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 1:09 PM, Pontus Pihlgren
wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 12:16:10PM -0400, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> > > From: Ian S. King
> >
> > > When I left in 2014, LCM's Massbus disk emulator was working quite
>
>
> Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2016 12:07:24 -0700
> From: "Ian S. King" <isk...@uw.edu>
> Subject: Re: Unibus controller for MFM disks
>
> When I left in 2014, LCM's Massbus disk emulator was working quite well
> indeed, and was running in 'production' to keep down
On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 12:16:10PM -0400, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> > From: Ian S. King
>
> > When I left in 2014, LCM's Massbus disk emulator was working quite well
> > indeed, and was running in 'production' ... ISTR the plan was always to
> > open-source the hardware and firmware,
On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 3:33 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
> I can only think of one, the AED WINC-08 RL02 system, but that used 8" drives
> Good luck finding one, and the matching interface card. I don't think Qualogy
> Emulex or Dilog ever made MFM for Unibus. MFM controllers were
> On Oct 15, 2016, at 7:33 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
>
>
>
> I hope someone gets a Q/Unibus non-mscp small disk emulator PCB built
> some day. I wonder if Guy has had any time to work on his.
>
No, I haven’t had any time to work on stuff. I still have the prototype
MEM11A
I can only think of one, the AED WINC-08 RL02 system, but that used 8" drives
Good luck finding one, and the matching interface card. I don't think Qualogy
Emulex or Dilog ever made MFM for Unibus. MFM controllers were mainly a QBus
market. I suppose some day I should make a list of all of the
I don't know that Digital ever had a Unibus disk controller for ST412
interface disks, but were there any third party controllers? I'm in
need of disk controllers for PDP-11/40 and think that might be an
option given the availability of reliable MFM disk emulators.
-chuck
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