Thanks... - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

4 Aug 1998

...

 Thanks to everyone that was helping solve our PDP-11 boot   problems but
  it seems that part of the problem was the fact
that the   backplane was
  giving out (it actually went up in smoke on
friday night   while we were

 The backplane, or the power cable to it? I've never seen a backplane 
 smoke - with a DEC PSU, even a dead short between +5V and 
 Ground doesn't 
 normally melt anything. What on earth were you doing with it?

It was the power supply. Being old, it decided to go boom.

...
   PS: If anyone
in the Massachusetts/New Hampshire area has a   spare RX01
  that they wouldn't mind parting with, we have
alot of Q-Bus   cards that
  need a backplane :)  
 An RX01 (unless I am very much mistaken) is a dual floppy drive. It 
 doesn't contain a backplane, and you certainly can't plug q-bus cards 
 into it. I don't see how this would help.

My bad. We have a real PDP 11/23 backplane and we're looking for an RX01
to boot it from. We have a whole ton of 8" disks and these are the only
disks we have with an OS.

Tony