21 Nov
1999
21 Nov
'99
6:17 p.m.
Bill Pechter <pechter(a)pechter.dyndns.org> wrote:
I showed him the 11/780 design and layout and diags
and he walked me
over to the HP mini. One slick piece of hardware. The boards were
cabled together neatly with one over the edge cable. All the traces
were gold plated and it was a pretty sight.
He said HP stood for one thing "High Priced." But he was right about
the quality for the price. First rate mechanicals.
Actually, DEC used over-the-edge cabling on an early minicomputer, and
abandoned it because it was LESS reliable than backplane connection,
and also made the machines much harder to service.
Reference: _Computer Engineering: A DEC View of Hardware Systems Design_