13 Apr
2007
13 Apr
'07
7 p.m.
Subject: BA11V
From: ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell)
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 23:00:54 +0100 (BST)
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Back here (and at DEC) we used them for RDC (remote diagnostic controller)
also a falcon, a MXV11 or two (serial, rom and ram).
Allison
Sounds nice. I have a few BA-11VA (four dual width slots)
and it's a challange to put enough boards to make a bootable
viable sytem in that. An 11/23, 256k ram, DLV11J and a Rom
As an aside, there was a thing in the UK called a 'York box' (I believe
it was developed at the University of York) to link machines to the
X25-based Janet (Joint Academic NETwork).
It consisted of a BA11V box containing an SBC21 (Falcon) CPU, a 32KW RAM
card, a RRV11 (parallel port) and a DPV11 (sync serial port). The
DPV11 talked to the X25 network, the host system was connected either
using the DRV11 (16 bit parallel interface) or using one of the
asynchrononous serial interfaces on the SBC21.
I belive it was used with VAX and certainly PERQ hosts (I think I have
the EPRQ software for it somewhere, I do have a York box in the pile...)