15 Sep
1999
15 Sep
'99
7:43 p.m.
I have a VaxStation 3520 in the garage that seems to
boot. I gather it's
...
It seems like a really nice box
I've got one. It's a marginally OK box.
except for the BI bus
It's not BI. It's a special bus used only by the Firefox machines
(3520 and 3540).
Even though the box looks similar on the outside, it's not at all
like a 3500 on the inside.
(it has Qbus too!),
There were two different Q-bus adapters that could be used in it,
and both were crocks for different reasons. Apparently the TK50
controller was just about the only NPG Q-bus card that worked reliably
in the thing.