17 Jun
2001
17 Jun
'01
6:45 a.m.
On June 17, joe wrote:
What is the name of the 3 row connector used for
the sockets where VME
cards plug in?
I believe those are called Eurocard connectors. It's possible,
however, that that name refers to the cards and not the connectors,
but I'm not really sure.
-Dave McGuire
17 Jun
17 Jun
10:30 a.m.
On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 02:45:19PM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
I believe those are called Eurocard connectors. It's possible,
however, that that name refers to the cards and not the connectors,
but I'm not really sure.
no, i think you are right dave, i think the name Eurocard connector specifies
the actual connector. i've also seen them referenced as "VME backplane
connector" and "DIN 41612 Connectors"
-brian
2:29 p.m.
Someone once ('88) told me that
VME itself stood for "Versa-Module Eurocard".
I never knew if they were BSing me or not though.
John A.
3:31 p.m.
Someone once ('88) told me that
VME itself stood for "Versa-Module Eurocard".
I never knew if they were BSing me or not though.
John A.
I believe it's a fact.
It's the old Versabus signals on Eurocard
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11:03 p.m.
New subject: Digalog computer?? was Re: VME connector name?
Thanks to everyone that replied. The reason that I asked is because I
picked up a Digalog computer that uses those connectors. The computer is a
rack mount jobs that's about 6 inches tall. It has a bunch of card slots,
each with a single VME type connector that the cards plug into. The cards
are about 4 x 6 inches in size. The whole thing looks a lot like a
standard bus computer. It has 5 1/4" floppy drive and a tape drive in the
front and a hard drive in the rear of the chassis. I haven't had a chance
to look at is closely yet but the CPU card has a 68010 CPU on it. The
Floppy drive interface is a separate card and there are several other cards
in it but I haven't check to see what they are yet. Does anyone know
anything about thse machines? I found Digalog has a website but I haven't
had time to search it yet.
Joe
At 02:45 PM 6/17/01 -0400, you wrote:
On June 17, joe wrote:
What is the name of the 3 row connector used
for the sockets where VME
cards plug in?
I believe those are called Eurocard connectors. It's possible,
however, that that name refers to the cards and not the connectors,
but I'm not really sure.
-Dave McGuire 
18 Jun
18 Jun
6:14 a.m.
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19 Jun
19 Jun
7:38 a.m.
New subject: Digalog computer?? was Re: VME connector name?
At 07:14 PM 6/18/01 +0100, you wrote:
That makes sense. The VME cards with two connectors are called "6U"
and the larger cards with three connectors like this are called "9U".
Thanks to everyone that replied. The reason that I asked is because I
picked up a Digalog computer that uses those connectors. The computer
is a
rack mount jobs that's about 6 inches tall.
It has a bunch of card slots,
each with a single VME type connector that the cards plug into. The
cards
are about 4 x 6 inches in size. The whole thing
looks a lot like a
I don't know this machine at all, but I suspect that the rack height is
actually 5.25" (which is called '3U'). The boards sound like single
height standard eurocards, which are 100mm high by 160mm deep. Getting
prototyping boards for this machine is no problem :-)
That sounds likely. I found the company's website and they do make
a lot of industrial instrumentation controllers but I can't find anything
technical about their machines. I also couldn't find a model number or any
identificatiopn on this machine other than the company name. It's in
pretty sad shape but it does have a hard drive in it and I'm hoping that
it's still bootable.
Joe
standard bus computer. It has 5 1/4" floppy
drive and a tape drive in the
Unfortunately, the DIN41612 connector was used for many buses, not just
VME. Several manufacturers made their own custom buses using this
connector (it has many advantages over the card edge, not least that you
don't have to have any gold plating on the PCBs themselves). My guess is
that your machine could be a custom bus, probably based on the 68000 bus
signals. -tony
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