[Info-vax] Unix on A DEC Vax?

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2013-01-19 03:42:43 +0000, Howard S Shubs said:

> In article <kdcr6g$ib$1 at speranza.aioe.org>,
>  glen herrmannsfeldt <gah at ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:
> 
>> Howard S Shubs <howard at shubs.net> wrote:
>>> In article <kdcp77$sir$2 at speranza.aioe.org>,
>>> glen herrmannsfeldt <gah at ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:
>> 
>>> I looked that up.  THe HSD05 I find on eBay is a StorageWorks brick.
>>> Not helpful.
>> 
>> So what does, or doesn't, it do?
> 
> It doesn't plug into a Q-bus backplane.

There is a version of the HSD05 that does plug into the Q-bus.

http://deathrow.vistech.net/~cvisors/DEC94MDS/hsdd5ina.pdf

This widget was sold with later-generation VAX 4000 series boxes, as 
the DSSI gear was being replaced with SCSI gear.

The StorageWorks SBB bricks and shelves are cheap, are handy mounts for 
disks, and are very quiet in comparison to the leaf blower shelves.


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