For that matter does anyone have recent news on Jim? Last I heard his one
son was selling a PDP-11 of some sort on eBay, but I think that was a year
or so ago.
Zane
On Wed, 15 Jul 2009, Ethan Dicks wrote:
Hi, all,
I was searching Google Images for pictures of the blank filler panel
brackets (the discussion earlier this week) and ran across an image on
Jim's site of a "CompuServe Node Board". I know a little bit about
them (perhaps not as much as some on this list) and wanted to pass
some info to him from my own experiences (I happen to have a tri-node
chassis, but no CompuServe-made boards). My attempts to write him
directly bounced.
Basically, I wanted to tell him, yes, they are Qbus boards, yes, they
are longer than standard DEC boards (longer than "extended length"),
and at some point prior to 2003, they made 486-based Qbus boards and
must have ported their PDP-11-based network transport software to
Intel.
Does anyone know what types of boards CompuServe might have made for
the "newer" nodes (besides serial boards and Intel CPU boards)?
Thanks,
-ethan