6 Jun
2005
6 Jun
'05
12:16 p.m.
Ethan Dicks wrote:
Ahhhhgggg! Ever seen that with a BA123? Makes you
cry... DEC
didn't want their graphical workstations being converted to
departmental server use, so they plugged up the extra holes in
the backplane to prevent expansion. For a while, one could
order a virgin backplane from spares, but they eventually
caught on (then they stopped hosing workstation customers so
much ;-)
Fortunately, I've only ever seen it at a DECUS
(DEC-owned demo
machines); none of the machines I've worked with or personally
owned were broken this way.
This was the (thankfully) short-lived VAXstation II/RC. The
one I saw came in a BA23, not a BA123. There were companies
around that would (allegedly) remove the epoxy (or whatever
it was they used) and hence restore full functionality.
Antonio
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Antonio Carlini arcarlini at iee.org