8 Jul
2005
8 Jul
'05
10:45 p.m.
On 7/8/05, Jay West <jwest at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Ok, so the obvious question is...
If I add a 2nd bay.....
1) How unobtanium are the parts necessary to bolt the two H960 racks
together?
I don't remember ever afixing H960s together - just cranking down the
feet so they didn't move. Newer racks (like the 42" corporate-style
cabs) _did_ have panels to lock racks together, but I think that was a
new thing in the early 1980s.
2) Can the MF11-L be present in the machine along with
the M7891 in the BA11
(in the 2nd rack)? Can both the core and the semiconductor be used at the
same time? Or do I need to pull the core boards out of the MF11 to use the
M7891 in the BA11?
Ooh... can't help with something that processor specific, sorry. If I
had to guess, it'd be easier to have one or the other, not both. In
the case of semi-modern OSes, I wouldn't worry about core - it's
really nice when you are loading things from papertape and when you
are toggling bootstraps, but when you can press a switch to load fresh
from the boot disk, the non-volatility of core is less
important.
-ethan