10 Apr
2002
10 Apr
'02
3:43 p.m.
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Zane H. Healy wrote:
Err, no skins. The BA23 came out of a rack, so the front bezel is all
there is. I _do_ have a set of skins, but the PDP-11/53 is wearing
them, and I'm not inclined to evict it. :) Probably if I turned the VAX
so the fans face the wall instead of me, it would help, too.
When somebody donates a SCSI adapter to my collection, I'll be
divesting all the MFM drives myself. I'm not holding my breath.
Pretty much my guess, too. The disk has half of NetBSD on it (the
/usr/ tree is on a disk I don't have), but it boots far enough that I'm
reasonably certain it's actually got all the RAM the system reports.
Thanks,
Doc
I was hoping
the BA23 would be quieter than the BA123. It's not.
?!?!? What's up with your BA123? My PDP-11/73 is one of the quietest
machines around here, probably the only thing quieter is the latest two
PC's and the G4/450 PowerMac. Have you got all the skins on it? Mine used
to be fairly noisy, but the combination of getting all the skins, and
switching to small 3.5" SCSI HD's has it so quiet it ran all night Sunday
because I forgot it was on! (I've been running it enough lately I'm not
looking forwards to my next electric bill!) The memory
board, which is a DataRAM 63016 C0. Listed online as a 16M
board some places and 32M others. The system sees it as 2 16M boards.
Is this kosher?
I suspect this is a trick on DataRAM's part to fit 32MB on one board. It's
possible that the CPU will only recognize memory boards up to 16MB.