More info RE: KA650 & uVAX

From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis_at_mcmanis.com>
Date: Wed May 5 22:25:02 1999

At 10:17 PM 5/5/99 -0400, CLASSICCMP_at_trailing-edge.com wrote:
>It runs RA70's, RA80's, and RA90's. 4 at a time.

Ah, that explains it, there were a couple of racks of RA81s in this auction
as well so I suspect each one of these vaxen originally matched up with one
of those racks. Seems incredible to run a disk on what essentially looks
like 10BT connector, since there are 4 2901's on the controller its
probably a predecessor to firewire or something like it!

>Yep, you got it! [Q/CD all across]

Cool, also the wide spacing to allow the metal covers fooled me for a
minute, there is only 11 slots in these puppies.

>The DESQA is skunk box version of the DELQA.

Ok, that works.

>It's a perfectly standard connector. The components near the connector
>are, in this case, probably nothing fancier than some electrolytics
>for bypassing. Is this reasonable? My TK70's are currently in running
>systems, and my customers would get angry if I started pulling them
>apart this time of night :-)

No problem-o, please _don't_ disconnect them :-) I'm the short theory on
the skid is no the only remaining candidate. One of the boxes has the TK70
with skid plate, which is cool but its also the drive in the nicest shape
(it still has its door flap which seems to be pretty rare.) Perhaps its
newer than the other ones.

I put everything together in the BA213 labelled "chewy" and fired it up,
and according to the LED display it booted! Unfortunately I don't have a
connector that would hook up into the console port thingy to see _what_ it
booted. The RF71's sure make a weird power up sequence, kind of a reggae
beat, but they eventually settle down with their little ready lights on.
Tomorrow I'm going to steal a CNF with the 9 pin connector to see what the
console is saying.

Since I'm missing the front cover for this thing does anyone have a pointer
to a picture of what it would look like? How about a spare BA213 cover?

--Chuck
 
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