Tu10 pdp11

Well, there was also that large intermediate generation which still had their own backplanes, but they were 'system unit' (for lack of a defined term for this form factor) backplanes (e.g. RK11-D, RH11, etc), which fit into e.g. a BA11-K, along with other 'generic' UNIBUS backplanes (i.e. DD11-C, etc). That first generation I spoke of (the one with backplanes that mounted directly in H960's) are marked by the use of lots of small Flip Chip cards, not the larger quad/hex boards that one finds in the 'second generation' (above). I guess the larger board versions were cheaper to manufacture, which is why they got rid of the first generation ones in favour of the second generation (which were often functionally identical to the first-generation ones they replaced, e.g. RK11-C and -D). Those first-generation one used very similar construction technique to the KA10 generation of machines, which also used that size Flip Chip (although a different series, mostly with individual transistors), and heavier wire on the bacplanes. What did KI10's use, does anyone know? I have this bit set that they used roughly the same kind of Flip Chips as the 'first generation' PDP-11 DMA devices, but I've never seen a KI in person. Noel