PDP-11 Memory

[Warner Losh]

On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 6:24 PM Zane Healy via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:

>
> > On Jan 11, 2019, at 4:55 PM, Ethan Dicks via cctalk <
> cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 7:11 PM Adrian Graham via cctalk
> > <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> >> It’s going back severalteen years now but I’m pretty sure I built a
> Micro 73 into a BA123, it’s a CD22 backplane after all. I still have all
> the cards AND the BA123 but I’m supposed to be turning it back into the
> MVII it was originally, back in 1986 when it was called FRUIT.
> >
> > It will definitely work, but I just wasn't sure about what types of
> > CPUs _DEC_ stuffed into a BA123 and sold out the front door.
> >
> > -ethan
>
> My /73 was originally a MicroVAX II at Tektronix.  After I got it, I
> turned it into a PDP-11 after getting a VAXstation 3100.
>
> I’m pretty sure you could get the /23+, /53, /73, /83, and /93 in either a
> BA23 or a BA123.  I have an actual badged BA23 pedestal for my /23+.
>

Not sure about the /53, but I've seen /73s and /83s in BA23 for sure, and a
/83s in BA123. Our VAXstation II was in a BA23 we converted to rack mount,
and I've seen lots of MicroVAX IIs in BA123 cases.

Warner