Wow, I thought I had seen every obscure third-party Q-bus and Unibus chassis
and backplane through the 70's/80's/90's but I had never heard of "Ford Higgins
Power Frame" until today.
It's a very stylized case obviously built around that disk drive but otherwise
reminds me a lot of the DEC grey
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Subject: Re: Ford-Higgins Powerframe QBUS Docs
nope.
wonder if the 68k board was from
nope.
wonder if the 68k board was from Integrated Solutions
On 4/25/17 4:52 PM, Jason T via cctalk wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 6:38 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk
> wrote:
>> On 4/25/17 1:46 PM, Jason T via cctalk wrote:
>>> It has a combo fixed-disk/cart drive that their docs
>>> call an RC40.
On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 6:38 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk
wrote:
> On 4/25/17 1:46 PM, Jason T via cctalk wrote:
>> It has a combo fixed-disk/cart drive that their docs
>> call an RC40.
>
> Amcodyne 7110 Arapahoe
Interesting! I've never heard of that manufacturer.
Do you know anything else about th
On 4/25/17 1:46 PM, Jason T via cctalk wrote:
> It has a combo fixed-disk/cart drive that their docs
> call an RC40.
Amcodyne 7110 Arapahoe
competitor to the CDC 9457 Lark
I have scanned the manuals that came with my Ford-Higgins Powerframe
machine. It is a QBUS PDP-11/73 machine in what looks a whole lot
like a DEC BA23 enclosure. Not sure if it's a clone or a licensed
rebadge. The CPU board is DEC, the memory is a Clearpoint P/N
3325/300 (size unknown) and the
