uVAX II Memory Board

Megan wrote: I think this is more or less what Jerome was looking for. IIRC, you're right about the boards only getting power from the Q-Bus. One problem I see is you might be limited to what slots the boards can go it. MS630's came as 1,2,4, and 8MB boards, and MS650's came as 8MB or 16MB. MS630's and MS650's weren't interchangable on the VAXen, so might not be mixable for something like this. I believe there were 16MB 3rd party MS630 equivalents, and 32MB MS650 equivalents, but am not possitive. What I'd been suggesting is a board with a single DIMM slot that you could go out and buy 64,128, or 256MB and slap it in. Have some sort of battery backup and you're good to go. Though this might actually need to be in an external box. For the maximum usefulness you'd have it in a box, and simply plug it into an RL02 Controller. For maximum usefulness have a switch that'll allow you to save the memory image to a EIDE HD. Of course since an EIDE disk would be able to saturate the Q-Bus.... Anyone have any idea how hard it would be to build a box with a DIMM in it that looked like an RL02? Zane -- | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | | healyzh(a)aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast | | healyzh(a)holonet.net (alternate) | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | and Zane's Computer Museum. | | http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |