km@emory.UUCP (Ken Mandelberg) (08/24/84)
Does anyone make an inexpensive winchester disk subsystem
for the Unibus. By this I mean a system with at least 20meg,
low maintenance cost, and a purchase cost of around $5k.
Right now we are running a PDP11/44 with RL01s and RL02s.
These are slow, expensive to maintain, and take a lot of
space.
What I describe seems to be available for the Q-bus and most
kinds of microcomputers. I haven't seen anything for the
Unibus for much less than $10K.
Ken Mandelberg
Emory University
Dept of Math and CS
Atlanta, Ga 30322
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km.emory@csnet-relay ARPANEThenry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) (09/08/84)
I don't think you are likely to get a Winchester system for the Unibus
for $5k. The usual rule of thumb is that a Unibus interface board costs
$4-5k, and that anything beyond that (i.e. the disk drive) is extra.
So $10k may be about as low as it's going to go.
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