VME bus for homebrewed CPUs

I've been looking for suitable VME stuff to hopefully use to build a Magic-1. I have a cardcage that will hold a 12 slot backplane with J1 and J2. However, the board it came with is an oddball 9-slot deal. Three of the J2 slots have big conductors embedded in them, which makes it look a little like a 13w3 jack. I found a 12-slot backplane with only J1 slots. So, if I understand this correctly, I need a J2 backplane. Can these be had on the used market for a reasonable price? Or can I put another J1 backplane alongside the first and expect that to line up with a VME prototype board? -- David Griffith dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?