Create a VAX CPU with FPGA?

[Joshua Boyd]

On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 09:37:57PM -0800, Zane H. Healy wrote:

> I'm one of the lucky ones, all of my main PDP-11's have SCSI 
> adapters.  However, only one of my two -8's (/m & /e) have a disk 
> controller, though I've not found time to get either -8 fully running 
> :^(  One thing that really worries me is that the days of being able 
> to get new SCSI disks that will work with a PDP-11 are coming to an 
> end, if they aren't already over.  One of the vendors that is very 
> good with getting 3rd party disks to work with VMS has reported that 
> the new U320 drives don't sync down to Narrow SCSI right.

What about Acard IDE->scsi adapters?  Anyone tried using one of them on
such machines?  There has been a lot of success in using those cards on
older narrow Suns and SGIs with modern IDE disks.
 

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