On 24 March 2016 at 19:20, Alan Frisbie <fris...@flying-disk.com> wrote: > Because it *could* be done? > I wasn't sure, since I never actually worked with the real hardware. I assume the UBA on the VAX provides a "normal" UNIBUS, right? In that case you could probably connect other "old" and "weird" devices to the VAX. RP11 (RP01, RP02, RP03 anyone?), TA11 (TU60 DECcassette), VT11...
> I saw a TU56 running on a VAX-11/780 at the 10th VMS anniversary > celebration at the 1987 Fall DECUS symposium in Anaheim. It was > done by Andy Goldstein, who kindly sent me a copy of the driver > he wrote for it. My intent was to hook my TC11/TU56 via an ABLE > Q-Bus-to-Unibus converter to my MicroVAX-II, but I never got around > to it. I still have all the stuff, so I might yet get around to > doing it. Just because it *can* be done. :-) > That TU56's were hooked up to a VAX-11/780 running VMS amuses me greatly. And echoing Mark, yes please do provide us with the driver, if you can. Now, to putting DECtape on a MicroVAX... let me use a quote here: "Science isn't about WHY. It's about WHY NOT." Also, hmm QBUS<->UNIBUS bridges... you could stick a TC11/TU56 into a MicroVAX 3900 or VAX 4000 Model 200. Regards, Christian -- Christian M. Gauger-Cosgrove STCKON08DS0 Contact information available upon request. _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh