[rescue] Vaxen?

[Dave McGuire]

On April 27, Scott Newell wrote:
> >Well, yes, but not as bad a 30 pin stuff.  I was just thinking that 72pins
> >might be something I could do (maybe), but 168pins would definately require
> >a lot more skill than I could make up on the spot.
> 
> Aren't most 168 pin simms actually sdram?  From what I've seen, sdram
> interfacing is a little more involved than plain old dram.  Might not be
> too bad--I'll have to dig up that issue of CCI...

  Yes, it was covered in CCI fairly recently.  I didn't read the entire
article, but it didn't look too involved.

> Actually, this whole SCSI target thing is interesting...I've whined before
> about the inability to get a handful of fast discrete digital I/O lines
> from my sparcs (something like the parallel printer port on a PC can be
> _very_ handy for testing embedded hardware projects).  Maybe SCSI targets
> are the way to go--build a box that's got a SCSI address and send commands
> to flip and read bits.  Hmm.

  This is a very neat idea.

    -Dave

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