PC to UNIBUS adapter?

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From: Homer Smith
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1992 20:16

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     In the way out department...
 
     Is there a board that will allow my ibm pc to talk to
a standard VAX unibus board?
 
     I have an old graphics tube that has a high speed parallel
DMA port, many times faster than the 19.2 serial port, and it
works well plugged into a unibus board which plugs into the
VAX backplane, or an IBM DACU which pretends to be a vax while
talking to an IBM 3090.
 
     Graphics tube -- unibus -- vax backplane -- vax
     
     Graphics tube -- unibus -- DACU -- IBM 3090 channel attached

     I want,
 
     Graphics tube -- unibus -- UNKNOWN -- IBM PC.
 
     
     Any hope?


     Homer

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