Odd VT100 question

Jerome Fine replies: Why did DEC not make such low cost systems available for hobby users? I also heard that someone down under (Australia) also did so with a VT103 backplane. Seems that the first two slots need to be ABCD, but I have no idea at all. Maybe not since the memory access is via the cable over the top. Adding an ESDI controller and a DHV11 would make that quite powerful and with a DHQ11, there would even be room for a TKQ50. However, with a uVAX II CPU, and especially with an ESDI controller (i.e. with just an ordinary PDP-11 CPU), I would use an external PC power supply for the hard drives and keep them outside the VT103. Plus, give each ESDI hard drive its own fan. I do that in any case even with a BA123 (i.e. put the ESDI hard drives on an external PC power supply) since I have had two power supplies on a BA123 go on me while I was using the internal power for just 8 boards, an RX50 and a TK70.