SMD (was Re: All things ESDI)

[Allison]

>
>Subject: Re: SMD (was Re: All things ESDI)
>   From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf at siconic.com>
>   Date: Sat, 07 May 2005 17:13:31 -0700 (PDT)
>     To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
>
>On Sat, 7 May 2005 shoppa_classiccmp at trailing-edge.com wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure where (it's *not* the Aug 1976 glossy) but I think
>> I've seen a picture of a IMSAI next to a CDC 9762, with the
>> implication that they were connected.  Don't know if that was an
>> IMSAI ad or not.
>>
>> Tim.
>>
>> (After 30 years I still think it was probably vaporware... Of course
>> there were non-SMD hard drives (SA4000 style) that were succesfully
>> interfaced to S-100 stuff.)

I've seen a vanilla S100 box with a CDC hawk on it back around '79. 
Seems the interface was partially external and the S100 interface
made the bus interface. The system was not a commercial product
but, the hawk disk and the controller was.  A similar idea was 
used for RK05 drives to DEC boxen. 

Allison