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- Subject: Wanted: VAX-11/750 controller for CDC disk drive
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.022403.3981@arizona.edu>
- From: PRESIDENT@hacks.arizona.edu (A HACKS ε╓ )
- Date: Friday, 13 Nov 92 02:20:24 MST
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- Greetings! I have a somewhat unusual request. I'm looking for a
- VAX-11/750 compatible controller card for the CDC 9730-160 disk drive.
- Allow me to explain in detail.
-
- I'm a member of a computer club at the University of Arizona. The UofA
- Hardware And Computing Knowledge Society (yes, UA HACKS -- but HACKS in
- the original, best sense of the word) is a club of students who want
- to get hands-on experience with computers.
-
- We learn about system management (VMS, Unix, etc), hardware maintenance,
- and software development by rolling up our sleeves and getting our hands
- dirty with old computers that have been donated to us.
-
- Our club obtains unused and unwanted computer equipment and transforms each
- machine into a resource that provides members with valuable learning
- experiences.
-
- One of our current projects involves bringing up a VAX-11/750 under 4.3BSD
- Unix. This isn't an impossible task--provided one has a boot disk and
- controller for one's 750. We don't. Yet.
-
- Its not that we don't have disks--a professor in our Electrical and Computer
- Engineering department generously donated a number of CDC drives to the
- club. Instead, we're fresh out of VAX-compatible controllers for these disks.
-
- We have enjoyed success using Emulex cards to connect several of these
- CDCs to our other machines. An SC7000 is controlling a pair of 340M
- drives in one of our 780s, while an SC780 controlls pair of 160M drives
- in our second 780. We even have an SC31 which we were hoping to use;
- unfortunately, this card is very much broken.
-
- If you happen to have a such a controller which is gathering dust or is slated
- for the trash can, or if you might be able to help us out in some way, or even
- if you have questions about the club, please contact me via email!
-
- Many thanks in advance,
-
- Michael
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- Michael E. Shimniok
- President, UofA HACKS "It Should Work!" -- Club Motto
- president@hacks.arizona.edu
-