11 Oct
2022
11 Oct
'22
3:34 p.m.
Tony Duell <ard.p850ug1(a)gmail.com>
I wonder if that's because on the 11/04 and 11/34
the boards go in
from the top of the box whereas on the 8/a the boards go in from the
front. Therefore you have to remove the frontpanel to insert/remove
boards on the 8/a but you don't on the 11's. The 11's panel is rarely
removed.
Yeah, kind of. I actually have an 11/04 too, and the console there just screws on to
the front of the BA11-K. Since the BA11-K has slides and pulls out of the rack and (as
you said) the boards are accessed from the top, there's no need to ever remove the
front panel.
Don't know what the BA11-L (that's the short box for the 11/04) did. I
don't think it had slides, but I'm not sure.
The BA8-C, OTOH, doesn't have slides and (as you said) the cards go in from the
front. So you need to remove the front panel anytime you want access to the cards, which
is a major pain.
Bob