Xref: utzoo comp.sys.dec:5457 comp.unix.ultrix:6767 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!haven!ni.umd.edu!MIKE@UC780.UMD.EDU From: mike@UC780.UMD.EDU (Mike Santangelo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: Q-Bus MSCP/SMD Controller Sought Message-ID: <1991Apr4.161630.1431@ni.umd.edu> Date: 4 Apr 91 16:16:30 GMT References: <4039@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> Sender: usenet@ni.umd.edu (USENET News System) Reply-To: mike@UC780.UMD.EDU Organization: The University of Maryland, University College Lines: 41 Nntp-Posting-Host: uc780.umd.edu In article <4039@gmuvax2.gmu.edu>, rauletta@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (R. J. Auletta) writes: >An odd assortment of people using a Vax3600 (Ultrix3.1) at >George Mason University (located in the Washington D.C. metropolitan >area) seek to acquire a controller for interfacing a Fujitsu >Eagle to a Vax3600. Hence the need to acquire a Q-Bus MSCP to SMD >controller. > >We seek both suggestions on possible vendors but also sources >to purchase same at *extremely attractive prices*. >Should you or your organization have said controller and are no longer >in need of said controller the donation of the needed controller >would earn said person or organization the everlasting admiration and >respect of a "whole bunch of people". > >(In other words we have the drive (from a dead 90x) but can't afford the >current new or surplus price of a controller and sure could use the diskspace.) > >Your comments and suggestions are appreciated and can be posted >or aimed directly at the party responsible for this posting by >sending your cards and letters to: > >R J Auletta >Electrical and Computer Engineering >rauletta@gmuvax2.gmu.edu >rauletta@sitevax.gmu.edu >(703)-764-6100 > > Try DILOG, they make several such interfaces for QBUS based systems to SMD disks, emulate DEC MSCP disk protocol. Your local contact would be in N. Va, number here says (703)742-8285. The hdqts number in calif. is (714)937-5700, or (800)DILOG32. Prices aren't too bad, expect to pay between $800 and $1800 for it (if I recall correctly). +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Michael F. Santangelo + Inet: mike@uc780.umd.edu VMS / UNIX Systems + mike@socrates.umd.edu Academic Computing UMUC + Bnet: MIKE@UC780 (The University of Maryland, + MIKE@UMUC (not visited often) University College) +