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Greetings!  I have a somewhat unusual request.  I'm looking for a 
VAX-11/750 compatible controller card for the CDC 9730-160 disk drive.  
Allow me to explain in detail.

I'm a member of a computer club at the University of Arizona.  The UofA
Hardware And Computing Knowledge Society (yes, UA HACKS -- but HACKS in
the original, best sense of the word) is a club of students who want
to get hands-on experience with computers.  

We learn about system management (VMS, Unix, etc), hardware maintenance, 
and software development by rolling up our sleeves and getting our hands 
dirty with old computers that have been donated to us.

Our club obtains unused and unwanted computer equipment and transforms each
machine into a resource that provides members with valuable learning
experiences.

One of our current projects involves bringing up a VAX-11/750 under 4.3BSD
Unix.  This isn't an impossible task--provided one has a boot disk and
controller for one's 750.  We don't.  Yet.

Its not that we don't have disks--a professor in our Electrical and Computer 
Engineering department generously donated a number of CDC drives to the
club.  Instead, we're fresh out of VAX-compatible controllers for these disks.

We have enjoyed success using Emulex cards to connect several of these
CDCs to our other machines.  An SC7000 is controlling a pair of 340M 
drives in one of our 780s, while an SC780 controlls pair of 160M drives 
in our second 780.  We even have an SC31 which we were hoping to use; 
unfortunately, this card is very much broken.

If you happen to have a such a controller which is gathering dust or is slated
for the trash can, or if you might be able to help us out in some way, or even
if you have questions about the club, please contact me via email!

Many thanks in advance,

Michael
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Michael E. Shimniok
President, UofA HACKS            "It Should Work!" -- Club Motto
president@hacks.arizona.edu