[rescue] VAX Pull movie

[Thomas Gallaway]

http://www.dc2600.org/images/bigmofo1.jpg
http://www.dc2600.org/images/bigmofo2.jpg

do I have to say ... HEAVY? hehe...
I found that just yesterday at the computer recycling place I went to...
I belive it's 6meg's and I think it had some scsi'isch connector on the back
but I hadnt time to check it more out... (too much other toy's there to
play)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave McGuire" <mcguire at neurotica.com>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 06, 2002 1:17 AM
Subject: Re: [rescue] VAX Pull movie


> On Sunday, October 6, 2002, at 01:22 AM, Eric Webb wrote:
> >> more 8" floppies, plus a Corvus Constellation hard drive.  The Corvus
> >> was
> >> so big (a whopping 5 MB) and expensive (over US$5,000) that it was
> >> networked to two other Mod IIs, using a lot of ribbon cable.
> >
> > Hey, I remember working with one of the Corvus drives (prolly
> > mid-80's?) that
> > worked on a two-wire network with a bunch of Apple-II clients.  I
> > think there
> > were interface cards for other platforms, too, though.
> >
> > Anyone remember much about these things?
>
>    I had a Corvus "network drive" (not sure what it was actually
> called)...hard drive in a desktop case with an interface to that
> network.  It was neat.  I tore it down many years ago to salvage the
> [linear, but nice anyway] power supply out of it.
>
>          -Dave
>
> --
> Dave McGuire          "PC users only know two 'solutions'...
> St. Petersburg, FL       reboot and upgrade."    -Jonathan Patschke
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