Thanks...

From: Dellett, Anthony <Anthony.Dellett_at_Staples.com>
Date: Tue Aug 4 08:58:55 1998

> >
> > Thanks to everyone that was helping solve our PDP-11 boot
> problems but
> > it seems that part of the problem was the fact that the
> backplane was
> > giving out (it actually went up in smoke on friday night
> while we were
>
> The backplane, or the power cable to it? I've never seen a backplane
> smoke - with a DEC PSU, even a dead short between +5V and
> Ground doesn't
> normally melt anything. What on earth were you doing with it?
>

It was the power supply. Being old, it decided to go boom.

> > PS: If anyone in the Massachusetts/New Hampshire area has a
> spare RX01
> > that they wouldn't mind parting with, we have alot of Q-Bus
> cards that
> > need a backplane :)
>
> An RX01 (unless I am very much mistaken) is a dual floppy drive. It
> doesn't contain a backplane, and you certainly can't plug q-bus cards
> into it. I don't see how this would help.
>

My bad. We have a real PDP 11/23 backplane and we're looking for an RX01
to boot it from. We have a whole ton of 8" disks and these are the only
disks we have with an OS.

Tony
Received on Tue Aug 04 1998 - 08:58:55 BST