861C power
controller, and I think an H960 or whatever rack. OK, first off,
which power supply modules would go in the PSU and where? BTW, the 11/34A I
IIRC it's one -15V,10A one (H754), two 5V,32A ones (H7441 IIRC), and an
optional one which, if fitted at all, is normally either the +20V/-5V one
for core memory or the battery backup interface one. Most machines only
have the first 3 regulators fitted.
I can't remember the order off the top of my head, but I can look it up.
Looking from back to front, i.e. with the box horizontal, power supply
nearest you, front panel furthest: H745 (-15V) on the far left; two H741
(5V) adjacent to the main transformer in the middle; core/battery/empty
on the right.
anyone have
any spare RK05 packs? Fourth, this may be a dumb question, but
which way should the grant continuity cards face, i.e. should the fingers
Actually, they're keyed and will only fit level if they're the right way
round. But it's not that obvious where they are level.
Note: the above test is not reliable. I have at least one system unit for
which exactly the opposite is true: there is a continuous groove from D
to E (and not a keying ridge), but not from C to D. So, if the card is in
backwards, the deeper post-D cut sits against the CD boundary while the
shallow pre-D cut is in the groove, and the card is level. Conversely, if
the card is in correctly, then the shallow pre-D cut rests against the CD
boundary; the slot is deeper than that, so that if the card is pushed in
as far as it will go, it isn't level. Rather follow this:
They go in with the traces on the left, as if they were
on the solder
side of the PCB.
(Left, looking from front to back; and they go in slot D, where A is
adjacent to the power supply and F adjacent to the front panel.)
While on the subject, most of the grant cards I have have a trace running
from DA2 off the edge of the card... ?
This might be a good time for me to ask whether any of the more
experienced people might look at, verify or criticize the diagrams I made
myself to identify Unibus and Qbus card connector pinouts. (I found it
remarkably difficult to find pinout information on-line for non-in/out
Unibus connectors, so I know the Unibus SPC diagrams are incomplete.)
Postscript versions; these are 'actual size', so that one can hold a card
against the diagram to quickly locate pins. (US letter size, but will fit
if centered on A4):
http://www.kw.igs.net/~schoedel/dec/bus/qbus.ps.gz (6K)
http://www.kw.igs.net/~schoedel/dec/bus/unibus-ab.ps.gz (5K)
http://www.kw.igs.net/~schoedel/dec/bus/unibus-cdef-spc.ps.gz (9K)
GIF versions, retouched a little to look better on-screen:
http://www.kw.igs.net/~schoedel/dec/bus/qbus.gif
http://www.kw.igs.net/~schoedel/dec/bus/unibus-ab.gif
http://www.kw.igs.net/~schoedel/dec/bus/unibus-cdef-spc.gif
xfig for the above and several other variations:
http://www.kw.igs.net/~schoedel/dec/bus/fig.tar.gz (52K)
Equivalent text 'diagrams':
http://www.kw.igs.net/~schoedel/dec/bus/u-diagram.txt
http://www.kw.igs.net/~schoedel/dec/bus/q-diagram.txt
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Kevin Schoedel
schoedel(a)kw.igs.net