DEC bus transceivers

[Ethan Dicks]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 2:35 AM, ben <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca> wrote:
> But who has the big systems now days?

Me.

> The days of 4K core is long gone.

I have Unibus machines that were 8 or more "system units" (DD11CK
equivalents), and a PDP-11/20 that takes up 3 BA-11 boxes.  60% of it
is 4K core stacks, BTW, just like the day it was made in 1972.  It
only has a handful of peripherals (console, RK11, LP11...)

> Use TTL and try to keep the systems small.

That's great if one is cobbling together a new system, but it doesn't
help when one is trying to breathe life into an existing system by
adding a modern peripheral because ancient disks are no longer
reasonably available.

-ethan