Final tally from the VAX fairy

From: CLASSICCMP_at_trailing-edge.com <(CLASSICCMP_at_trailing-edge.com)>
Date: Thu Aug 3 05:10:35 2000

* There are also four "Avalon" boards
* which are quad width, have a Mot 88K
* processor on them, something like a
* 4MB daughter card, one edge connector
* (26 pin) and a couple of LEDs. No clue
* what these do.

Avalon made Q-bus and Unibus co-processors for special applications.

As of a couple of years ago, you could get Unibus Alpha CPU boards from
them, if your wallet was thick enough :-).

* A couple of Sigma Q-bus extenders (labels inside say "do not put a CPU in
* this rack"

Because they're serpentine ABAB all the way through. If you put a CPU
board with PMI stuff on its CD slots, those PMI signals get mixed with the
Q-bus signals and things don't work. At worst, the magic smoke comes out.

[Kennedy 9400]
*for most of its life. Tony or anyone else, is there a way to power this up
*without connecting it up and seeing if it can load a tape?

Yeah, turn it on, put in a tape, hit load!

*I've also got a Emulex quad width board that looks like an SMD controller,
*part number is: QD3510206.

Yeah, that's one of their later SMD controllers. Pretty smart - IIRC
it actually has a 68020 on-board!

Tim.
Received on Thu Aug 03 2000 - 05:10:35 BST