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SA-10 cabinet

The Systems Concepts SA-10 is a microprogrammed PDP-10 disk controller which interfaced with IBM I/O channel‎ devices. On the PDP-10 side, it attached to the external memory bus (for retrieving channel programs, and data transfers), and the PDP-10 I/O Bus (for control, interrupts to the PDP-10, and for diagnostic functionality).

It was very popular at TENEX sites.

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-The [[Systems Concepts]] '''SA-10''' is a [[microprogram]]med [[PDP-10]] [[disk]] [[device controller|controller]] which interfaced with [[International Business Machines|IBM]] [[channel]] devices. On the PDP-10 side, it attached to the [[PDP-10 Memory Bus|external memory bus]] (for retrieving channel programs, and data transfers), and the [[PDP-10 I/O Bus]] (for control, [[interrupt]]s to the PDP-10, and for [[diagnostic]] functionality).
+The [[Systems Concepts]] '''SA-10''' is a [[microprogram]]med [[PDP-10]] [[disk]] [[device controller|controller]] which interfaced with [[IBM I/O channel‎]] devices. On the PDP-10 side, it attached to the [[PDP-10 Memory Bus|external memory bus]] (for retrieving channel programs, and data transfers), and the [[PDP-10 I/O Bus]] (for control, [[interrupt]]s to the PDP-10, and for [[diagnostic]] functionality).
 It was very popular at [[TENEX]] sites.