On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 04:19 PM, saipan59 wrote:
* On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 02:46 PM, jafinch78 . wrote:
I've wondered the same for SCSI hard drive adapters to be able to upgrade
older equipment to IDE/PATA/SATA hard drives.
No specific example, but I'm pretty sure that sort of thing has been done
multiple times. As you can surmise, there is a great need among 'vintage
computer' collectors/users. Perhaps not as much for SCSI-to-modern (yet), but
definitely for pre-SCSI. Years ago I made a couple of interfaces for DEC
PDP-11 systems to replace a floppy drive with a modern laptop (did the floppy
because the protocols are simple).
Pete
Circa 1990 a Sun SCSI shoebox consisted of an ESDI drive and an Emulex SCSI - ESDI adapter card. After I got a 1.8 GB SCSI drive, I traded two 140 MB ESDI drives for a wonky Tek 465. Which worked *just* well enough to allow me to fix my Dumont 1060 horizontal sweep which then allowed me to fix the various faults in the 465. At which point I felt entitled to say I had some ability in electronics rather than being a mere dabbler. It took all my free time for several weeks. But even 30 years later I'm proud of doing that with just the manuals and no one to help me.
