Jay West wrote:
I haven't come across much in any of the
installation manuals I've seen
that really talk about routing the power and data cables in an H960 for
peripherals that slide out the front and lock on chassi-trak rails. What
was usually done historically in the field?
I can jerry rig something that will work... but I'd rather find out what
was done as installed by DEC installers at the time. I'd appreciate any
advice, pointers to manuals I must not be finding, etc.
If you go by my experience, with at least 15 racks or half-racks of
system cabinets, drives, expansion drawers, and various crap, you
haven't missed anything. In every rack of DEC gear I've rescued, all of
it mid-late PDP-11 or early Alpha era and all but two straight from the
environment where they lived and worked, cable management is strictly a
la zip-tie.
I'm neither kidding nor exaggerating. The DEC FEs assembled this
stuff like nobody but them would ever open the back door. *Lame*.
Doc