field maintenance print sets

From: Dave McGuire <mcguire_at_neurotica.com>
Date: Thu Aug 12 22:31:23 1999

On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Sellam Ismail wrote:
>> The easy way to tell a quad pdp11 board from a quad pdp8 board is to
>> look at the top and see if it's got metal ejector handles or plastic
>> "flip chip" style handles. pdp11 boards have a metal spine and metal
>> ejector handles, pdp8 boards have the plastic handles.
>
>Well, that starts me on the way to identifying the box of boards I picked
>up today. Except are you sure the plastic handled boards only go in the
>8's?

  Nono, definitely not. Please don't miss the retraction that I just sent to
the list. I don't know where my mind was. Numerous quad-width Unibus boards
(the DL11-W comes to mind, as does the pdp11/34's KY11-LB front panel control
board) have plastic handles and no metal ejectors.

                   -Dave McGuire
Received on Thu Aug 12 1999 - 22:31:23 BST