26 Sep
2005
26 Sep
'05
7:54 a.m.
Hi all,
I finally got to set up my PDP-11/34C with TU80 and two RK07 drives.
Given the space in my "museum", the RK07 drives are not immediately
next to the 11/34 rack. I am looking for an RK07 cable, part number
70-12292-25 or 70-12292-40 (25 or 40 foot length).
The cable *looks* like the RL01/RL02 cable, but is not identical !
You can use the RK06/RK07 cable with RL01/RL02 drives, but not the
other way around, because the RK06/RK07 cable has a few extra pins
actually connected (which the RL drives does not need).
That's what I've heard long ago ...
If you have a 70-12292-25 or 70-12292-40 and no longer need it,
I will gladly pay or trade for it. See my website (www.pdp-11.nl)
for the "spare boards" list, although it is not up-to-date / correct.
TIA,
- Henk, PA8PDP.
26 Sep
26 Sep
6:58 p.m.
Hi all,
I finally got to set up my PDP-11/34C with TU80 and two RK07 drives.
Given the space in my "museum", the RK07 drives are not immediately
next to the 11/34 rack. I am looking for an RK07 cable, part number
70-12292-25 or 70-12292-40 (25 or 40 foot length).
The cable *looks* like the RL01/RL02 cable, but is not identical !
You can use the RK06/RK07 cable with RL01/RL02 drives, but not the
other way around, because the RK06/RK07 cable has a few extra pins
actually connected (which the RL drives does not need).
That's what I've heard long ago ...
That is correct. The RK06/07 cable has, IIRC, all 40 pins wired (maybe
one is left black that would be used for termination power). The RL cable
has about 26 pins wired.
The terminators, BTW, are the same.
DEC would not aprove of this, but I have a DW11-B (Unibus-Qbus
translator) in my 11/45, with the Q-bus end in a MINC chassis (to get the
nice MINC modules, and an IBV11 GPIB interfave, on a Unibus machine). The
official ink between the 2 halves of the DW11-B is a pair of 40 way
ribbon cables. In my machine, the cables go from the Unibus board to a
couple of RK07-like bulkhead connectors, then through a couple of RK07
cables to the MINC rack where they go onto a couple more bulkhead
connectors, back to 40 way ribbon cable, then into the other half of the
DW11-B. Works fine...
-tony
27 Sep
27 Sep
7:04 a.m.
On 9/26/05, Tony Duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
That is correct. The RK06/07 cable has, IIRC, all 40
pins wired (maybe
one is left black that would be used for termination power). The RL cable
has about 26 pins wired.
Ah... good to know. I knew from my time in the old days that the
cables were not the same, but I never scoped them out.
DEC would not aprove of this, but I have a DW11-B...
to a couple of RK07-like bulkhead connectors, then through a couple of RK07
cables... into the other half of the DW11-B.
Nice. I may have to steal that idea.
-ethan
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