Lord Isildur <mrfusion@uranium.vaxpower.org> wrote:
> Granted, IDE disks alone arent any faster than the qbus,

False.  Most if not all IDE disks you can buy today have a sustained
transfer rate faster than the Qbus can handle.  It's not a problem
because the drive buffers the data and won't get unhappy if you read
or write at a slower rate.