[Info-vax] DLT drives and antique SCSI compatibility

[Michael Moroney]

Roy Omond <roy at omond.net> writes:

>On 17/07/2020 06:57, Michael Moroney wrote:

>> DSSI was enough like SCSI that on a certain VAX box part of the configuration
>> was telling it whether an IO board should talk DSSI or SCSI.

>That would have been the DEC 4000 model 600 (Cobra) and 700 (Fang)
>boxes (Alpha, not VAX) if I recall correctly.

>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_4000_AXP

Yes you are correct, Alpha not VAX. I sort of adopted a pair in ZKO (unused and 
already obsolete) for testing out some of my clustering code changes before 
borrowing a more advanced cluster, if needed. Just needed a pair of Alphas with 
a couple of shared (DSSI) interconnects.