Set of mystery DEC boards: who can help me identifying these?
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Wed Jun 8 13:00:54 CDT 2016
I asked my DEC dealer friends, and they said the PN will be on the metal handles. If you can provide those, then he can tell u what they went to.
Cindy
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From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of P Gebhardt
Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2016 4:51 PM
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Subject: Re: Set of mystery DEC boards: who can help me identifying these?
>>the 50xxxxx number with the letter behind it could be a dec board number.
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>The 50 class could be the artwork, and the letter the board rev. If that is the case, there is probably a 54- class on the other side of the board one number higher. The 54 number is the board with components, and can be tracked down, but not easily.
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Thanks for this hint, Paul. I rechecked for numbers, but couldn't any 54-numbers on the boards.
>>They could have been renamed by another company.
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It looks very much to me like original DEC equipment.
>>Any other print in the etch?
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Interestingly, the prints in the etches are those I stated and all have an X prior to the actual number.
>>Any pictures?
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Yes, I uploaded some at
http://www.digitalheritage.de/other/dec_mystery_boards/
I still have not clue what these boards are for. Any help is highly appreciated!
Thanks,
Pierre
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>On Sat, May 28, 2016 at 5:51 AM, P Gebhardt <p.gebhardt at ymail.com> wrote:
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>Hello list,
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>>I recently got a bunch of boards from somebody who was either not able to tell me where they were from.
>>The boards seem to be unibus-based with numbers starting with X. I neither came across these before, nor could find any information in the web about it:
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>>Type, P/N , Description
>>X029, 5013132B, AUC interconnect
>>X022, 5012197C, unibuswindow
>>X021, 5012181C, CD ROM control (did that ever exist for unibus?)
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>>X020, 5012180B, data path
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>>Two 16K mos memory modules M7847 came with the set.
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>>No backplane, unfortunately.
>>Any hints about the type of system and application these boards were for?
>>Many thanks for any pointers.
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>>Wish a nice weekend to all of you,
>>Pierre
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>>Pierre's collection of classic computers moved to: http://www.digitalheritage.de
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