AT&T 7300/3B1's (was: Re: Who is vintagecomputermuseum?)

[Jules Richardson]

Gordon JC Pearce MM3YEQ wrote:
> micheladam at theedge.ca wrote:
>> Does anyone know of a 'bridge' converter that would allow a scsi disk 
>> to interface to an MFM controller?
>>
>> Michel Adam
> 
> I'm not sure how that would work.  Do you mean replacing an existing MFM 
> disk with a SCSI disk?

It's been talked about at various times on the list here...

It needs high-speed sampling of the MFM data at the track level into buffer 
memory, and some smarts to translate the buffer memory into blocks on the drive.

It *could* be done, but nobody's made it work yet AFAIK.

cheers

Jules