Anyone playing with the 8x300

[Ethan Dicks]

On 5/14/05, Allison <ajp166 at bellatlantic.net> wrote:
> There were whole clases of appications it was useful for but often
> designers rather than and deal with it's peculiar implmentation just grew
> their own from the ground up like the RX02 and SMS disks. It's lifespan
> in the market was short due to parts like the 29116 and other faster
> and more commonplace micros.

I've only ever seen them on MFM disk boards... I have one board from a
Davong enclosure that I _think_ is of the Northstar-era with a CPU-bus
interface of 40 or 50 pins (_not_ SCSI or SASI; yes, I'm sure), and
another couple from the DEC Professional 350/380.  Presumably one of
the early designs that was kicked around in several forms was a disk
controller, and future engineers (like at DEC) built on what came
before.  I'm sure there were other uses, but I've only ever seen them
talking to disks.

-ethan