Serial UNIBUS Repeater?

[Mark J. Blair]

> On Jun 15, 2015, at 16:26 , Mike Ross <tmfdmike at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Strobe Data make something like half of what you need:
> 
> http://www.strobedata.com/home/unibusfw.html
> 
> Unfortunately IIRC it's an 'if you have to ask the price you can't
> afford it' kind of deal...


Interesting! Thanks for sharing! I could probably make one "cheaper", but I couldn't make one "cheap". :)

Another approach would be to build a BC11A-equivalent cable using multiple narrower ribbon cables (as previously mentioned in this thread), and use the round-jacketed-shielded ribbon cable. The stuff isn't cheap, though, and a couple of round-jacketed 40-conductor cables probably aren't any more flexible than the Pertec tape drive cables I already have snaking about between the racks.


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