Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Kurt Nowak Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Re: My Apollos Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 22:43:51 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 14 Message-ID: <12138714.2096.1331448231965.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@pbfa4> References: <21205177.1225.1331351778944.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@pbctz2> <9efd0856-4dcd-4a62-b3b0-0b4486c62ef6@w29g2000yqw.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 72.207.125.90 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1331448611 8124 127.0.0.1 (11 Mar 2012 06:50:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 06:50:11 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <9efd0856-4dcd-4a62-b3b0-0b4486c62ef6@w29g2000yqw.googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=72.207.125.90; posting-account=fhPgOgoAAAAh0HKrCej6k-q41rN0jMVe User-Agent: G2/1.0 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.apollo:75 On Saturday, March 10, 2012 9:26:33 AM UTC-8, Jim Rees wrote: > I don't think the WD "mystery card" is a scsi controller. The chip > seems to be an ASIC that was used on some ethernet cards (WD was in > the ethernet business too in the 1980s). But the parts count is too > low for a 1987 scsi controller. It does appear to have a 50-pin > Centronics connector. I'm going to guess it's a generic parallel port > controller, maybe for controlling lab equipment. It's not for a > printer, that would have a 36-pin connector. Well I did a Google search on "wdscs-atxt fasst x7" (from the label) and ap= parently its an 8-bit scsi controller... Not sure why its in an Apollo thou= gh. Maybe someone stuck it in there thinking its a PC and it might work? Or= maybe there is a way of driving it? These machines all came out of surplus= shops, so I have no clue how they were being monkey'ed with...