On 10/05/2017 01:27 PM, Paul Berger via cctalk wrote: > I once had a Tecmar SASI adapter (I still have the documentation > and diskette) I seem to recall that it was mostly buffers which > would suggest that most of the work was done by the device driver. > The disks that went with it where ST506 drives connected to Xebec > S1410 bridge cards. This card/device driver also supported having > multiple initiators so more than one PC could share that massive 10, > 15 or 33MB disk.
My Ampex card is a not-very dense full-length card with LSTTL and one 2732 EPROM. Connection is made by a 25-position dual row (0.1) header poking through the rear bracket. Probably cheaper than any D-sub or "Centronics" type connector of the same pincount. IIRC, the PC Megastore also included a streaming 1/4" tape drive in the same box. According to Infoworld, the MSRP was about $3775. Disks weren't cheap in 1985. Ampex used the "Megastore" tag on a bunch of things, including their memory-as-a-fixed-disk for minicomputers. --Chuck
