5 May
1999
5 May
'99
8:21 a.m.
At 08:45 AM 5/5/99 -0400, Tim wrote:
You have the skunk box (BA213-type cabinet) version of
the KA650. The
skunk box deals with FCC compliance by having a metal cover over
each board (or board set). As long as you aren't particularly worried
about neighbors turning you in to the FCC, you're welcome to cable
up the console any way you want. The console bulkhead on the skunk
box KA650 uses DEC MMJ connectors (offset-tab modular pluts) for the
serial cable, a rather standard thing in the DEC world.
Very cool, I actually picked up three UVAX38xx's in two of them were KA650
cpus and in one was a KA655 CPU. All three have been "upgraded" to 32MB of
third party memory. The "skunk" boxes were fairly trashed by the process of
sparing them out. I'm guessing that they were part of a cluster.
You'll also need KA650-compatible memory to go
along with the CPU;
KA630 memory doesn't work with the KA650 CPU.
Not a problem as they have 32MB memory cards with them.
As for peripherals they all have TK70 tape drives, and the associated
controller, one has a board pair M7164/M7165 connected by short cables
across the top. And there is a drive hiding in one of them. (I've not
identified it yet) they have what look like SCSI II connectors but a person
suggested they might be DSSI connectors (which I know nothing about).
I'm going to see if I can bring one of the boxes to life, All are missing
the panel that would have covered the card cage. If not I'll try to enhance
the speed of my world box bases uVax II.
--Chuck