> On 13 Dec 2015, at 18:40, Robert Jarratt <robert.jarr...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > > I picked up some Qbus cards yesterday. They seem to be board set for a > MicroVAX II. However, one of the cards was, to me at least, a bit unusual. > It was made by a company called Webster, and it appears to be a controller > for SMD disks. I was not familiar with SMD disks and had to look them up. I > suspect this might be a little out of the ordinary, and, possibly, an odd > combination for a small Qbus system to access such a physically large type > of disk. Were MicroVAX IIs used much with such disks? Is this a bit of an > unusual find?
Webster were based in Melbourne Australia and developed a lot of innovative products in the 1980s/1990s. We had one such controller in a MicroVAX-II I used to manage with a Fujitsu Super Eagle SMD drive. It was a very cost effective solution compared with an RA-82. I hadn’t thought about this particular system for a long while and it brought back fond memories. The fact that I still manage OpenVMS systems 30 years later is cause for celebration! Huw Davies | e-mail: huw.dav...@kerberos.davies.net.au Melbourne | "If soccer was meant to be played in the Australia | air, the sky would be painted green"
