some RM03 questions

On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 06:34:56PM +0000, Tony Duell wrote: I've been up to my elbows in real RM03s and CDC 9762s (what they are based on). They are indeed close, but in my experience, not identical. I worked a job in 1988 where the boss had me refurbing pallets of DEC equipment. One task was to attempt to remove the DEC mods from the RM03 to allow us to connect it to a Unibus SMD controller. Even with his expertise, we were not able to figure out all the things that DEC changed. Perhaps with proper schematics it would have been trivial, but all we had at the time was a real 9762 we could pull parts from, and a row of RM03s to experiment with. ISTR there were some minor differences in the cards in the internal card cage (not the SMD<->MASSBUS adapter below; that was 100% DEC). I'm still sure it's possible, but I couldn't begin to describe how to do it. -ethan -- Ethan Dicks, A-130-S Current South Pole Weather at 21-Dec-2003 01:00 Z South Pole Station PSC 468 Box 400 Temp -15 F (-26.1 C) Windchill -22.8 F (-30.5 C) APO AP 96598 Wind 4.7 kts Grid 059 Barometer 693.5 mb (10120. ft) Ethan.Dicks(a)amanda.spole.gov http://penguincentral.com/penguincentral.html