6 Nov
2001
6 Nov
'01
10:41 a.m.
For one thing, whats the proper way to get to the cards? It looks like i may
have to take apart the back end of this thing, which contains about 9 male
DB25 connectors and a 2 digit LED numerical display... So far, I can tell
I have the KDJ11-B CPU board, which is quad height unlike the A version
which the web tells me was dual height. I can see there are cards in the
upper 4 slots of the bus, and that there may be a total of 8 slots.
Tricky devils, someone put a huge 110V/220V sticker on the power supply
that was so large it also covered the screws I needed to open the back.
Well, I have a 1 Mbyte MOS RAM board, M3104 8-line asyncronous multiplexor
with DMA (can these be used as normal serial ports, or do I need more
external hardware?), a M7546 TMSCP controller for TK50 tape unit (which
I dont have), and the M7555 MFM Winchester & Floppy disk controller.
I'm assuming I just connect a terminal to the main console serial port,
and hope someone left me an operating system since I have no peripherals
at this time...
-Lawrence LeMay