SMS LE interface

[Doc Shipley]

Ethan Dicks wrote:
> On 11/25/06, Brad Parker <brad at heeltoe.com> wrote:
> 
>> The one I have has a boot prom; I don't know if it's rx01/02 compatible.
> 
> 
> I can't guarantee your model (mine is a dual floppy), but AFAIK, all
> of the SMS drives for DEC machines are at least RX01, if not RX02,
> compatible. Moreover, most, if not all, of the SMS drives should be
> able to take a totally blank floppy and format it (DEC RX01s can't
> format a thing, and the RX02 can only re-write the data portion of the
> track of a pre-formatted RX01 disk and make that part double-density,
> thus, converting an RX01-K into an RX02-K).
> 
> There are other ways of starting with blank floppies (the RX01 format
> is large-system IBM compatible, thus standard), but few options using
> a DEC CPU.

   I have a Unibus SMS board marked FD1100I on a hand-lettered label, 
and SMS PE-HIP with an Intel 8008 and a Shugart FDC chip.  I don't 
remember which one.

   I'd love to know how to use it.  That Shugart chip implies it has a 
lot more smarts than an RX02 controller.  If it does Winchester too, so 
much the better.

   Pictures:

http://www.docsbox.net/.other/11-03/DSC00079.jpg

http://www.docsbox.net/.other/11-03/DSC00080.jpg

   There are a 50-pin, a 40-pin, and a 30-pin header on it.  I can scan 
it Tuesday for a hi-res image if anyone's interested.

   Err.  I *assume* it's Unibus.  It came in a non-functional PDP-11/04.


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