19 Nov
2001
19 Nov
'01
6:31 p.m.
On Nov 20, 0:53, Tony Duell wrote:
Since you can put options with top connectors anywhere
in the backplane,
there would seem to be little point in having special foam over the front
slots only.
That reminds me... supplementary question: The machine had gaps between
some of the cards. It's over 20 years since I used a PDP-8 for real, and
in those days I wasn't usually allowed at the innards. The gaps don't
matter, do they? There's no grant chain like in a Unibus, AFAIR. The
-8/E is an Omnibus machine, of course.
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Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York