On Mon, 23 Mar 2020 08:10:17 -0700 "Robert Armstrong" <b...@jfcl.com> wrote:
> >FUBAR is the name of a 780 CSR (in the UBA: failed unibus address > >register); > > perhaps it was used in the 730 as well. > > The 730 certainly had a UBA; don?t know if had a specific "FUBAR" > register though. But as far as a physical bar inside the chassis > I've never seen nor heard of anything like that. I have a 730 in the > garage and it doesn't have any such thing. The 730 fit into a single > 10-1/2" chassis anyway, so there wasn't even a specific cabinet or > rack dedicated to the 730. And the 730 chassis was basically the > same box as was used for the 11/44, but with a somewhat different > backplane. > > I suspect the "FUBAR" at Dan's high school may have been a local > joke :) Not at all. It existed on the 780, at the very least, so most likely elsewhere. Mentioned in the VAX11/780 Hardware Handbook (e.g. the 1979-80 edition). See: http://www.tavi.co.uk/FUBAR.jpg _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
