Getting started with Data General Nova hardware -- looking for a few pointers.

Hi all -- I've just acquired a new project (which I have promised myself I won't get too involved in until I have the 11/05 running satisfactorily). Well, a pair of projects. Or a pile of projects, depending on how you look at it. What I've ended up with are two Data General Nova chassis: an 800 and a 1200, and a box of boards to go with them. Only the 800 chassis has a power supply. I don't know much about the history of this hardware other than that it originally came from the University of Washington, and I don't know that any of this actually went together originally, but in addition to the chassis, I have: - 2 DGC Nova 800/820 CPU sets (two boards each) - 4 DGC Nova 8KW core planes - 2 Keronics P-4 8KW core planes - 1 Basic I/O Control board - 2 DGC Nova 2 CPU boards - 1 DGC Nova 2 16KW core plane I've been looking to get into DG stuff for awhile, but I don't have a lot of experience with the hardware. I've gotten pretty good with DEC stuff over the years and there are a lot of good informational sites out there on the 'net for DEC hardware to help the beginner. The DG hardware seems to be less well covered in this regard. I'm going to need to spend some time to get up to speed -- aside from reading through the manuals on Bitsavers and whatnot, does anyone have any general recommendations for getting started? Will the Nova 2 stuff work in an 800/1200 backplane? (Is the Nova 2 memory compatible with the Nova 800 CPU?) Anyone have any docs for the Keronics core boards? Anything I should be aware of when working on this hardware (gotchas, etc...)? I've heard rumor that the power supplies are not the most robust things in the world... Thanks as always, Josh