Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!sgi!shinobu!odin!odin.corp.sgi.com!tomw From: tomw@orac.esd.sgi.com (Tom Weinstein) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Yet Another Upgrade Anecdote Message-ID: Date: 6 May 90 15:09:05 GMT References: <43777@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <1161.263f4987@gp.govt.nz> <423@dg.dg.com> <1173.2644246e@gp.govt.nz> Sender: news@odin.corp.sgi.com Reply-To: tomw@esd.sgi.com Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc. Lines: 17 In-reply-to: don@gp.govt.nz's message of 6 May 90 04:45:41 GMT In article <1173.2644246e@gp.govt.nz>, don@gp.govt.nz (Don Stokes) writes: > Did DEC (or anyone else for that matter) ever build a QBUS-UNIBUS > adapter? We run a VAXBI-UNIBUS adapter in our VAX 8200 to drive some > ancient synch/asynch comms boards (including a couple of DUP-11s, > remember them?) salvaged from our 11/750s before they were retired. I think some students at caltech put together a QBUS-UNIBUS adapter so that they could get more throughput from their disks. This was quite some time ago, so I doubt any of them are still at caltech. They may have given the design back to DEC, but I'm not sure. > Don Stokes, ZL2TNM / / PSI%(5301)47000028::DON -- Tom Weinstein Silicon Graphics, Inc., Entry Systems Division, Window Systems tomw@orac.esd.sgi.com Any opinions expressed above are mine, not sgi's.