On Nov 20, 0:53, Tony Duell wrote:
> Since you can put options with top connectors anywhere in the backplane,
> there would seem to be little point in having special foam over the front
> slots only.
That reminds me... supplementary question: The machine had gaps between
some of the cards. It's over 20 years since I used a PDP-8 for real, and
in those days I wasn't usually allowed at the innards. The gaps don't
matter, do they? There's no grant chain like in a Unibus, AFAIR. The
-8/E is an Omnibus machine, of course.
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Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
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