Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!ncar!unmvax!nmtsun!dieter
From: dieter (The Demented Teddy Bear)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: LSI-11 bus devices
Message-ID: <1488@nmtsun.nmt.edu>
Date: 20 Nov 88 06:15:34 GMT
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Sender: dieter@nmtsun.nmt.edu
Reply-To: dieter@titan.nmt.edu (The Demented Teddy Bear)
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Hi.  I'm the proud (?) owner of a handful of PDP-11/03s.  After various
experimentation and the acquisition of more obsolete hardware, I've come
up with some questions:

	Is there an LSI-11 controller that understands the Pertec
tape interface?  What's it's designation and how much should I expect
to pay?

	Is there an LSI-11 controller that understands ST-506/SCSI/
ESDI/SMD/<favorite acronym>?  Same questions as above.

	Generalized:  I've been led to believe that the LSI-11 bus is
a fore-runner of Q-BUS (or was that UNIBUS?).  Other than memory, which
obviously won't work, do I have a prayer of taking cards designed for
the other bus spec and having them work?

Eventually I'll probably pick up a used PDP-11/34 (or bigger, as long
as it has memory management), but for now I'll play with what I've
got.

Yes, I realize I'm basically discussing turbo-charging a skate-board,
but it's *my* skate-board, and I want it to be the most tricked-out
skate-board on the street.  Of course, if you can answer the above,
I've got even sillier questions involving Apple ][s, PDP-8s, PDP-11s,
and SLIP, but you probably won't be interested....

Thanks for any helpful information.

Dieter (anybody need some core memory out of a DEC-20?) Muller
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