[rescue] Old sci and ide drives

[Mouse]

>>> HP-IB disk that weighed about half what I do
>> I suspect that drive ended up with me.  [...]
> We have *lots* of stuff that can use it at LSSM, and it would have a
> good home there.  Can you get it to us?

To be fair, I'm not sure it worked even when I gave it away, much less
now.  If ryan@ doesn't have anything that can talk to it, it could be
difficult to test, and it would be a pain to get it to LSSM only to
discover it's dead.  I used to have some hp300 machines - I don't
recall the numeric designation, but I do recall that it was VERY slow;
at one point, between that and my Alpha, one of the NetBSD people told
me I probably had examples of the fastest and slowest machines NetBSD
supported at the time.  I had only 5M of RAM for it, for one thing.
But I'm fairly sure I don't have those machines any longer either.
ryan@, I don't suppose you might have wound up with any of them too?

I also recall looking at the HP-IB disk interface and thinking it was
very simple by today's standards.  It probably wouldn't take too much
to teach some relatively modern SoC to talk to it - the memories are
fuzzy, but I _think_ it was so lockstep that maybe even the likes of a
teensy could do the job.

I think I have no HP-IB disks left to test with, or I'd try to cobble
something together.

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