I have a KS10 now...

From: Daniel Seagraves <root_at_bony.umtec.com>
Date: Sun Nov 26 22:40:09 2000

On Sun, 26 Nov 2000, Mark Crispin wrote:

> Ah. You do indeed have KS #4469, but I had a brain fade when comparing it. I
> have KS #4664.

Ah, OK.

> Yes, and you only need to provide power for the fan and the KS backplane if
> you don't need the tape drive or terminals (the CTY and KLINIK are off of the
> KS backplane). You do have to fix a bug in TOPS-20 to keep it from crashing
> if no DZs respond.

You were right - It didn't like me. I just went downstairs, plugged my
VT100 into the CTY port (I set it for 9600 N81 as just a guess), plugged
the KS backpanel and it's fan into a 20 amp powerstrip, bridged pins 1 and
3 on the UNIBUS box's DEC power controller plug (to let you turn the box
on without the controller at the bottom of the rack - I had to do this
trick for awhile to turn on the second BA11 in my 11/44), plugged the
UNIBUS in, and let 'er rip.

The Mighty-Mite whines at me (but it's not as loud as my 34A whines, it's
just there), some LED's above the KS boards light, the POWER light comes
on, a light comes on in the bottom of the UNIBUS box, the fans all come
on, and the machine just sits there. I checked the serial cable, it's
good, and I noticed that if I unplug the Vt100 from the CTY port and push
BOOT, the FAULT light comes on. I can clear the light by pushing RESET.
The power switch on the frontpanel doesn't do anything, and, if the BOOT
or RESET switches are pressed while the CTY is connected, they don't do
anything. So obviously it wants either the missing RH11 board (I think I
have a spare, I'll check tomorrow) or something inside the power
controller.

Since I can leave the BA11 off, I'm going to unplug it and pull the board
from it's RH11 and shove it in the KS backpanel, and we'll see what
happens.

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