[rescue] Vaxen?

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Sat Apr 27 13:32:49 CDT 2002


On April 27, Scott Newell wrote:
> Another goofy memory idea:  take a box the size of a cdrom, fill it with
> the biggest, cheapest ram you can find, stick an IDE/SCSI interface on it.
> Maybe even run some kind of low power battery backup/refresh circuit so
> that the sucker is nonvolatile.  I'll bet you could physically fit several
> GB, and it would be one _fast_ drive.

  I have a SCSI ramdisk sitting around somewhere.  It's got a 68020
and a bunch of 30-pin SIMM sockets on it.  I think it goes up to 64MB
or so.

     -Dave

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



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