Tu10 pdp11

william degnan billdegnan at gmail.com
Sun Sep 6 07:26:38 CDT 2015


I am the original poster, I have two planes of cards, not 1.  my link
pointed to a page with a thumbnail photo of one of the two planes, but
below that are links to more pics
http://vintagecomputer.net/digital/TU10/

Bill Degnan
twitter: billdeg
vintagecomputer.net
On Sep 6, 2015 8:18 AM, "Jay Jaeger" <cube1 at charter.net> wrote:

> On 9/6/2015 3:15 AM, Eric Smith wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Sep 5, 2015 at 7:54 PM, Jay Jaeger <cube1 at charter.net> wrote:
> >> Just to be clear, a TU10, even a master, does NOT connect directly to a
> >> PDP-11.  Instead, a cable of the same general ilk as a BC11 UNIBUS Cable
> >> (but I have not verified it is in fact the same kind of cable) connects
> >> the drive to the TM11 controller.
> >
> > That's true, but a TM11 controller can be installed in the TU10 master
> cabinet.
> >
>
> Of course.  Mine is set up that way - both in the same 19" rack (plus a
> PDP-11/05 and a DECCassette drive and other stuff I could fit it).  But
> remember that the original correspondent at first mentioned only ONE
> backplane (singular), so I thought it prudent to point this out lest he
> connect the TU10 to the UNIBUS with heaven only knows what bad things
> could happen results.  Once he read my note, he provided more info which
> did indicate he had two different backplanes.
>
> JRJ
>


More information about the cctalk mailing list