New subject: Thrift shop rants and revels

19 May 1999

--- Tony Duell &lt;ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk&gt; wrote:
...
  {\gloating I have a set of extender boards, which
means that I can
 trivially probe points in the 8/e CPU...} 
I have a couple of extender boards; not enough to do more than one or
two OMNIBUS modules at a time.  At least I have a couple of dual-height
boards for the FLIP-CHIP boxes, too.
...
  Anyway, even without extenders it's not too bad.
Remember that you can
 start without the EAE cards. 
But I _always_ start without the EAE.   Never had one to play with. :-(
...
  That means the CPU is one single card (M8330 timing)
and a pair of cards
(M8300 and M8310) strapped together. They can go _anywhere_ in the omnibus, 
I hadn't really thought of that.  My box is not so crowded that I can't make
the extra room.  It's a CPU, two 4K stacks, a SLU and a TD8E (and sometimes
an RX8E).  This is with two backplanes!  I can only imagine that somewhere,
someone got some goodies.
...
  RIght. The RL8A won't go in an 8/e box, although
electrically it should
 work. 
It should (never tried), but for short-term use, a quad extender should
do the trick.
...
  The RK8E does, of course.... 
Never had one of those either.  I have a 16-sector F pack that I got in 1984
and have not had the equipment to read.  I'd love to know what's on it.
-ethan
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