20 Jan
2009
20 Jan
'09
12:15 p.m.
Hi Peoples,
Picked up a boat load of LS11 stuff today via E-Pay and I got an enclosure
called a SB11.
Markings on the back indicate its a BA11-VA with Model OSB11-EA
I have searched high and low and only find vauge references to it in some
scientists/professors engineering documents.
Anyone know what this puppy is ??
I am guessing some sort of qbus dual height expansion thingamajig.
Pictures here
http://www.linuxgal.com/decstuff/sb11-1.jpg
http://www.linuxgal.com/decstuff/sb11-2.jpg
Also in that dir is a weirdo custom ?? VT100 with a tiny 4 inch screen. I am
guessing this all prob sat in some rack at one time.
http://linuxgal.com/decstuff/display1.jpg
http://linuxgal.com/decstuff/display2.jpg
http://linuxgal.com/decstuff/display3.jpg
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Kindest Regards,
Francesca (Aka LadyLinux)
Baltimore, Maryland
20 Jan
20 Jan
12:27 p.m.
>>>> "Francesca" == Francesca C
Smith <fsmith at ladylinux.com> writes:
Francesca> Hi Peoples, Picked up a boat load of LS11 stuff today via
Francesca> E-Pay and I got an enclosure called a SB11.
Nicknamed the "shoebox-11", it's a small Q-bus enclosure, so if you
want to build a tiny LSI-11 based computer this is the packaging to
use. It's mentioned in
http://neil.franklin.ch/Usenet/alt.folklore.computers/19990305_looking_for_…,
search for "SB-11" (about half-way down the very long page).
paul
12:28 p.m.
On Tuesday 20 January 2009 15:15:57 Francesca C. Smith wrote:
Ok,
I should have done the "Smart" thing and looked up BA11-VA on the google :-)
I see its a cute lil expansion box as I kinda though.
Markings on the back indicate its a BA11-VA with Model
OSB11-EA
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Kindest Regards,
No Problems Only Solutions
Hosting Admins
Baltimore, Maryland
3:37 p.m.
On 20/01/2009 20:28, Francesca C. Smith wrote:
On Tuesday 20 January 2009 15:15:57 Francesca C. Smith
wrote:
Ok,
I should have done the "Smart" thing and looked up BA11-VA on the google :-)
I see its a cute lil expansion box as I kinda though.
Not really -- it's a tabletop CPU/system box sold for OEM use -- in
other words a standalone unit you'd build a small system, such as a
process controller, into. It has a 2 x 2 backplane, arranged serpentine
style, so you could put up to four dual-height cards in it. It has one
gotcha -- no line-time clock.
http://www.dunnington.u-net.com/public/PDP-11/QBus_chassis
I don't think your monitor unit was ever meant for rack mounting,
either. Apart from having no obvious mounting points for rails, the
power inlet and switch would be inside and facing the side of the rack
if the CRT were facing out the front. I expect it's a tabletop unit, or
was mounted inside something else. Which is not to say it might not
have once sat on a shelf in a rack, of course.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
21 Jan
21 Jan
9:03 a.m.
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Francesca C. Smith
<fsmith at ladylinux.com> wrote:
Also in that dir is a weirdo custom ?? VT100 with a tiny 4 inch screen. I am
guessing this all prob sat in some rack at one time.
http://linuxgal.com/decstuff/display1.jpg
http://linuxgal.com/decstuff/display2.jpg
http://linuxgal.com/decstuff/display3.jpg
I have one of the same VT100 boxes in its original configuration,
which is without any CRT and with a full metal skin around it with a
handle on top making it somewhat like a giant lunchbox.
In the VS11-FX/HX/JX Raster Graphics System Installation Manual
EK-VSFHJ-IN-001 there are illustrations of this box being used in
combination with a VRV02-AA/AB color monitor where the box is refered
to as the "keyboard interface box" and the combination of the monitor
and the "keyboard interface box" makes up the VRV02-FA/FB.
The "keyboard interface box" video output feeds into the VS11 where
the terminal video output is then fed back out along with the VS11
raster graphics output to the monitor.
The VS11 is the M7061-YA / M7062 / M7064 Q-BUS board set.
Maybe there were multiple products made from the VT100 lunchbox, or
maybe only the VRV02 "keyboard interface box" and someone took one of
those and grafted a CRT onto it to make it a standalone terminal.
-Glen
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