27 Feb
2003
27 Feb
'03
1:47 a.m.
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, McFadden, Mike wrote:
Wandering through the local surplus I found a
decserver 550 in a full height
rack.
It had the following boards in it.
4 X CXA16-M M3118
1 X DESQA-SA M3127
1 X KDJ11-SD M7554
Nice !
I read somewhere that it could be converted to a 11/53
with a minimal
effort. How much trouble?
Rip out the CXA's (16-port serial boards), add a
disk and/or tape
controller, and perhaps some memory. Off you go. The heart of
the DECserver 550 was/is indeed a barebones /53 CPU. Which comes
with 512KB RAM on the CPU card, and its console serial port.
If you need stuff, and would like to trade for one of the CXA's,
contact me off-list...
--f