[rescue] Vaxen?

[Dave McGuire]

On April 27, George Adkins wrote:
> Dave?  Comments?
> How much time/money/effort would it take to assemble a rack-full of core 
> memory and turn it into a big fat solid-state-storage-device-type system with 
> a SCSI port out the back?

  It wouldn't actually be all that difficult to do.  There would be a
performance issue...core is slow (~1uS), and since reads are
destructive, every read is a read followed by a write.

  But interfacing it wouldn't be too difficult.

         -Dave

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Dave McGuire                                 "Mmmm.  Big."
St. Petersburg, FL                                -Den