On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 12:20 AM, tony duell a...@p850ug1.demon.co.uk wrote:
[My 11/730]
Sorry to hear that it's been decabled. Take your time to route those cables
through the bottom pan properly,
Yes, it's going to be a lot of work to get it back together.
I think I am going to start
On Jun 15, 2015, at 09:02, Guy Sotomayor g...@shiresoft.com wrote:
I'm not specifically familiar with the 11/730, but what's wrong with just
cabling up an expansion box the old fashioned way using BC11A cable?
Without losing anything else in the already-full rack, I'd need to route that
Hi Mark,
Do you just need a 4 or 9 slot backplane?
I Don't see the need for a repeater unless I'm missing something.
Paul
On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Mark J. Blair n...@nf6x.net wrote:
Has anybody ever made a UNIBUS repeater with a high speed serial link
between the bus segments yet?
On Jun 15, 2015, at 09:06, Paul Anderson used...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Mark,
Do you just need a 4 or 9 slot backplane?
I Don't see the need for a repeater unless I'm missing something.
An expansion without a reapeater would work just fine electrically. I'm curious
about whether some
BC11-A is flat, guessing 4 inches wide, but you man make nice 90 degree or
what ever angle you need easily.
On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 11:06 AM, Mark J. Blair n...@nf6x.net wrote:
On Jun 15, 2015, at 09:02, Guy Sotomayor g...@shiresoft.com wrote:
I'm not specifically familiar with the
[11/730]
In mine, an RL02 drive is the third unit of the rack containing the CPU
cabinet, and the TU80 tape drive is too tall
As I understand it, there were intitially 2 'packaged' systems. One had the CPU
with an RL02 under it for the
OS disk and an RL02 on top for the user disk. The
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Subject: Re: Serial UNIBUS Repeater?
[11/730]
for that slot (though one
On Jun 15, 2015, at 21:20, tony duell a...@p850ug1.demon.co.uk wrote:
Mine did start out as the 'packaged' system in the half-rack, and I intend to
keep it in that cabinet.
Obviously I will keep the CPU and R80, but I am not sure if the tape drive is
the most useful
third unit at this
[My 11/730]
Sorry to hear that it's been decabled. Take your time to route those cables
through the bottom pan properly,
Yes, it's going to be a lot of work to get it back together.
I think I am going to start (when I have got the machine room straightened out,
etc) with the 2 parts
of
That's a much better description of the 730's mechanical peculiarities than I
came up with. I was more concerned
with cable management between the two racks, since I have them in a tiny room
where I need to roll them
around to get access to the back (it's literally a tiny bedroom in a
On Jun 15, 2015, at 10:11 , tony duell a...@p850ug1.demon.co.uk wrote:
I'm not specifically familiar with the 11/730, but what's wrong with just
cabling up an expansion box the old
fashioned way using BC11A cable?
Nothing electtically...
The problem is that the 11/730 mouting box
On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 11:11 AM, tony duell a...@p850ug1.demon.co.uk wrote:
Totally useless coincidence that I noticed while doing a cryptic crossword :
'ethernet' is an anagram of 'three ten', and the original ethernet speeds
were three and then
ten megabits/second.
For bonus points,
On Jun 15, 2015, at 11:41 , tony duell a...@p850ug1.demon.co.uk wrote:
My 11/730 was totally decabled to get it to me. I think I have most of the
original cables, and most of the
metalwork. I've read the descriptions in the hardware manual on bitsavers and
I am not looking forward to
On Jun 15, 2015, at 21:55, tony duell a...@p850ug1.demon.co.uk wrote:
[11/730]
for that slot (though one of the later front-loaders would probably fit). If
you don't need an RL02 drive, then i
That's what they did. There was a third (later) packaged system with the CPU,
an R80
Strobe Data make something like half of what you need:
http://www.strobedata.com/home/unibusfw.html
Unfortunately IIRC it's an 'if you have to ask the price you can't
afford it' kind of deal...
Mike
On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 3:57 AM, Mark J. Blair n...@nf6x.net wrote:
Has anybody ever made a
On Jun 15, 2015, at 16:26 , Mike Ross tmfdm...@gmail.com wrote:
Strobe Data make something like half of what you need:
http://www.strobedata.com/home/unibusfw.html
Unfortunately IIRC it's an 'if you have to ask the price you can't
afford it' kind of deal...
Interesting! Thanks for
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