2017-12-21 19:23 GMT+01:00 Bill Gunshannon via cctalk <[email protected] >:
> I've never seen a blue tinted front cover from DEC. I've never seen one > like > that with screw holes exposed from the front. And if you look real close > it > appears to have little rubber feet on the bottom. > > Which still leaves the question of what if anything is inside that box. > $250 > is a lot to pay for a QBUS backplane and a PSU. I've paid less for entire > running systems. > FYI this is how my BA11-M front look like: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1FK6p9YvvH9AO-WC0CvEAAWH_QZnnHSVj Apart from the PDP-11/03 badge and the color they are identical.. /Mattis > bill > > ________________________________ > From: cctalk <[email protected]> on behalf of Noel Chiappa > via cctalk <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2017 11:07 AM > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Miss categorized DEC box on ebay > > > From: Bill Gunshannon > > > At best, it's a third part QBUS box. > > I assume that was 'third party'? > > No, that's a real DEC front panel. They could have put that on an off-brand > chassis, but I would _guess_ not. > > (The outer housing I can see looks like the slide-in ones DEC used to hold > the BA11-N/BA11-S, but I don't recall what the housing for the BA11-M's > looked like.) > > For some reason the BA11-M's seem to have been going for more than the > BA11-N's. Dunno why, maybe the original LSI-11's have some sort of appeal? > > Noel >
