On 05/20/2014 08:33 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
Yeah! It smoked the VAX II! It could've been user error...but how
the hell could I plug the breakout in wrong and have it smoke?!
Starting to think the backplane mayyyyy be wonky.
Oh. it's just 18-bit. It has a copyright date of March 1977.
NETCOM HV-1148.
Oh, THAT box! Shit, one doesn't take an 11/03 and shove a MicroVAX in
it. Sure, it's Qbus, but there's a decade between them, man!
I didn't know it was /that/ old! I thought it was a newer box just with
an 11/03 in it!
Seriously. Those boxes were sold as 11/03s.
To be honest...the linear supply should've given it away.
Yes.
Now...I DO need a Q22 box. That leaves me a custom-made BA23 enclosure
or a BA123.
Well, there are also 3U BA11 Qbus chassis with 22-bit backplanes. And
18-bit ones...which you can turn into 22-bit ones. ;) My first
MicroVAX-I ran in one of those, back in the 1980s.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
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