Re: bad144 - how useful still? Because it's annoyingly ubiquitous.

[Johnny Billquist <bqt%softjar.se@localhost>]

On 2026-06-03 22:08, Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM) wrote:
> Jason Thorpe writes:
>
> > That=E2=80=99s kind of what I figured; even though Fujitsu Eagles were =
> > used on both types of systems, no one was all that interested in using a =
> > drive from a VAX on a 3/260.
>
> I can't even imagine dragging the RA81s over to the Sun machines 8-0.
> If that's even possible.

Not possible. The RA81 is an SDI drive. Which connects it to some MSCP 
controller. So it's a completely different technology, and one that does 
not use bad144 at all.

I don't think anything except DEC ever used SDI. It was their 
technology, but I guess it could have been licensed to others, but I 
don't think it ever was.

  Johnny

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