25 Mar
2024
25 Mar
'24
5:24 p.m.
So, sorting thru stuff I came across this white elephant again.
I never found anything to positively identify it but I always
assumed it was some kind of buss extender. One board is fully
populated with chips and the other connected together with a
ribbon cable is totally passive.
But this time I found the funniest thing about it. The passive
end has a sticker on it with an expiration date. I have to admit
I have never found an expiration date on any of my PDP or VAX
hardware before. :-)
bill
25 Mar
25 Mar
5:30 p.m.
'Funny' and 'Plessey' in the same sentence? I agree with that!
They were very funny about warranty expiration in the early days,
probably because they had so many field failures. I bought four DL-11
equivalents from them once, all laden with ECO wires. When I called to
say I could only get one of them working, they were surprised that I
got that many!
Years later a ham radio buddy who was at Plessey at the time remembers
those days and the technician who was honest!
I would say it is warranty expiration!
cheers,
Nigel
On 2024-03-25 20:24, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
So, sorting thru stuff I came across this white elephant again.
I never found anything to positively identify it but I always
assumed it was some kind of buss extender. One board is fully
populated with chips and the other connected together with a
ribbon cable is totally passive.
But this time I found the funniest thing about it. The passive
end has a sticker on it with an expiration date. I have to admit
I have never found an expiration date on any of my PDP or VAX
hardware before. :-)
bill
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