[rescue] IDE SSDs? I never knew...

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Sun Jun 30 13:23:48 EDT 2024


On June 30, 2024 1:18:52 PM Jochen Kunz via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:
> Am 30.06.24 um 18:57 schrieb Patrick Giagnocavo via rescue:
>> I think there was even a late-1980s "SSD in all but name" that could
>> be connected to an ESCON channel for IBM mainframes.
> Back in the day I "rescued" a VAX cluster. Well, a pair of MicroVAXen.
> They came with a DSSI SSD in a DSSI expansion box. The SSD had
> 200something MB of NiCd battery backed DRAM. It was used as quorum disk
> for the cluster. Must have been build around 1990.

  I've drooled over those for years!

             -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
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