decserver 550 in Kansas City

From: Fred N. van Kempen <waltje_at_pdp11.nl>
Date: Thu Feb 27 09:47:01 2003

On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, McFadden, Mike wrote:

> Wandering through the local surplus I found a decserver 550 in a full height
> rack.
>
> It had the following boards in it.
>
> 4 X CXA16-M M3118
> 1 X DESQA-SA M3127
> 1 X KDJ11-SD M7554
Nice !

> I read somewhere that it could be converted to a 11/53 with a minimal
> effort. How much trouble?
Rip out the CXA's (16-port serial boards), add a disk and/or tape
controller, and perhaps some memory. Off you go. The heart of
the DECserver 550 was/is indeed a barebones /53 CPU. Which comes
with 512KB RAM on the CPU card, and its console serial port.

If you need stuff, and would like to trade for one of the CXA's,
contact me off-list...

--f
Received on Thu Feb 27 2003 - 09:47:01 GMT