DEC B400X expansion chassis

From: jkunz_at_unixag-kl.fh-kl.de <(jkunz_at_unixag-kl.fh-kl.de)>
Date: Sun Jul 22 16:09:38 2001

On 22 Jul, Zane H. Healy wrote:

> OK, my neighbor just dumped a B400X expansion chassis on me
> [...] Is the backplane straight Q-Bus?
AFAIK it has straight Q/CD Backplane like in the BA21x enclosures.

> I'm assuming I can't stick something like a 4000-300 boardset in it
No. The 4k200 / KA 660 was the last Q/CD VAX CPU. The later 4k[34567]00
CPUs are using a special connector to the backplane. It caries the
QBus, a DSSI bus and the memory interconnect. You need a BA440 for this
CPUs.
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tsch??,
         Jochen
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