8 Mar
1999
8 Mar
'99
9:35 p.m.
Zane H. Healy wrote:
Great Explanation! cut to save bandwidth.
Jerome Fine replies:
Thank you!
I believe the box you refer to is a standard BA23 that DEC "modified"
and many distributors purchased at about HALF the price of a normal uVAX II.
The idea was to get out a VAXstation II ASAP (later DEC had another model)
or so I was told.
It was ONE of the great design achievements by DEC. Many dealers promptly
bought as many as possible PLUS they ordered space backplanes for a real
uVAX II (hopefully not on the same order - most distributors were not that dumb).
About a half hour of time was needed to replace the backplanes filled with resin
with the ones that were not - 3 spare slots available - and there was no restriction
by DEC as to how the VAXstation II could be used!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I there anyone from DEC who could confirm this bit of trivia?
Sincerely yours,
Jerome Fine
RT-11/TSX-PLUS User/Addict
The BA23 is almost identical, except that
there are ONLY 3
A/B/C/D, and there are 5 more for a total of eight AND there
is a very different I/O distribution panel for RD5n.
Unless it's a VAXstation
II/RC that hasn't had the backplane replaced. The
VAXstation II/RC thanks to a stupid marketing gimic has three slots filled
in with Rosen. That leaves you with just enough slots for the CPU, Memory,
disk and tape controller, video adapter, and Ethernet controller (I could
swear I'm missing a controller here). I've pulled the video adapter and
put an RL02 controller in mine.