24 May
2021
24 May
'21
6:28 p.m.
For a long time AI used a UNIBUS CHAOSNet card,
plugged into an -11 connected
up to AI via the Rubin 10-11 interface. (I'm not sure which -11; maybe the
TV-11, but I think I remember there was another one used for the CHAOSNet? I
think the same -11 that the AI Lab's 3-mbit Ethernet interface was plugged
into. If I wasn't so lazy I'd look at TV > and see.)
Well, this was the KS implementation of AI, it had a two wide card set
that was wire-wrapped with love. I did take the one out of (I think) MC,
that is in my spare set of cards along with an extra console card from
AI. And of course the
https://i.imgur.com/De27IQL.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/Y8t5g91.jpg
The switches are still set, so we should be able to figure out which
system it came from if anyone still had the documentation on that thing.
Lots of wirewrap....
https://i.imgur.com/1weEylq.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/7ngfMuE.jpg
AI did have a full width Micom/Interlan Unibus Ethernet card, so I think
it talked to the Chaosnet/10.2.0.6 address space using that. That card
is in AI, I don't remember a similar one being in MC.
Someone should check with Dave to see exactly what's in MC as he seems
to have it at the moment.
BLT only has the CPU box, so its Unibus box is lost to history with
whatever interface it had to get to the net.
CZ
