Re: BC11A paddle boards

2016-01-27 Thread Ethan Dicks
On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 10:06 AM, tony duell wrote: > DEC (also?) made a board that brought the Unibus out on 3 40-way > cahles. I don't know that I've seen that exact one, but it sounds like something they would have done. > I have removed that from my 11/730 as I

Re: BC11A paddle boards

2016-01-27 Thread Guy Sotomayor
> On Jan 27, 2016, at 11:03 AM, Ethan Dicks wrote: > > If you do bare boards (no connectors), I'd probably be interested in > several sets. If you need to supply board connectors to keep your > volume up, I'll probably still be interested but perhaps not quite as > many

Re: BC11A paddle boards

2016-01-27 Thread Guy Sotomayor
> On Jan 27, 2016, at 7:48 AM, Ethan Dicks wrote: > >>> >> >> Practically, I would not want to use 60 way connectors and cable. They are >> not as easy to get as the 40 way ones. > > I just did some pricing and 60-way cable is a touch pricey. Through > cable surplus

Re: BC11A paddle boards

2016-01-27 Thread Guy Sotomayor
> On Jan 27, 2016, at 11:48 AM, Ethan Dicks wrote: > > Sure. I've been on the support end of selling through-hole kits, but > I wouldn't want to have to support SMD kits. I have bought and > assembled many kits with SMD parts and have enjoyed success, but not >

Re: BC11A paddle boards

2016-01-27 Thread Ethan Dicks
On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 2:13 PM, Guy Sotomayor wrote: > >> On Jan 27, 2016, at 11:03 AM, Ethan Dicks wrote: >> >> If you do bare boards (no connectors), I'd probably be interested in >> several sets. > > I offer parts kits as a convenience not as a

RE: BC11A paddle boards

2016-01-27 Thread Paul Birkel
-Original Message- From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Noel Chiappa Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2016 9:08 AM To: cctalk@classiccmp.org Cc: j...@mercury.lcs.mit.edu Subject: Re: BC11A paddle boards > From: Guy Sotomayor > I was orig

Re: BC11A paddle boards

2016-01-27 Thread Noel Chiappa
> From: Guy Sotomayor > I was originally thinking twisted pair ribbon cable until I saw what > 100' spool of that would run and decided to try just the straight > "grey" ribbon cable for now. That should be fine; the DEC M9042 board (basically equivalent) used three H854 flat

RE: BC11A paddle boards

2016-01-27 Thread tony duell
> > Considering DEC did something like this for the DWBUA, but with 4 > 30-pin cables (by necessity because of the BI backplane), is 2x60 pins DEC (also?) made a board that brought the Unibus out on 3 40-way cahles. The 11/730 I am restoring originally had a Unibus expansion cabinet, and the

Re: BC11A paddle boards

2016-01-26 Thread Pete Lancashire
, Jan 26, 2016 at 2:46 PM, Guy Sotomayor <g...@shiresoft.com> wrote: > I just received the first of the BC11A paddle boards (so that I can now > create my own BC11A cables). I made two variants of the boards. One where > the cables come out the “top” and another where the

BC11A paddle boards

2016-01-26 Thread Guy Sotomayor
I just received the first of the BC11A paddle boards (so that I can now create my own BC11A cables). I made two variants of the boards. One where the cables come out the “top” and another where the cables come out the “side” (so you don’t have to “fold” the cable in a number of different

Re: BC11A paddle boards

2016-01-26 Thread Ethan Dicks
On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 5:46 PM, Guy Sotomayor <g...@shiresoft.com> wrote: > I just received the first of the BC11A paddle boards (so that I can now > create my own BC11A cables). Cool! > For those who’d like to know, I probably will not be making a production run > of the