emanuel stiebler had uttereth on Wednesday 08 October 2003 01:04 pm:
> Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> > I've managed to pick up an FPF11/M8188 (PDP-11/23 Floating Point
> > option) for my PDP-11/23, and I'm wondering if anyone here knows how
> > to set up/ configure this thing. It's a standard-looking dual-height
> > QBUS module, with a 2x20 pin header at the top of the card (with the
> > QBUS fingers pointing downward. I've got a non-+ 11/23 CPU board
> > that I'd like to get it to work with, currently stuck in a BA23
> > cabinet.
>
> I hope I understand you here, but if you're trying to use it on a non
> 11/23 system you out of luck (OK, you can use it on a 11/24 too ...)
> If you look carefully at this board, you see that the qbus finger are
> only for the power supply of this board, there are no signals on it.
> Everything else this board needs is coming from the 11/23 or 11/24 FPU
> socket on the CPU module ...
No, I was trying to indicate that the CPU was an 11/23 not an 11/23+. So,
do I need some magic cable to go from a DIP socket on the CPU board to
this card? If so, does anyone have a pinout for it?
Thanks!
Pat
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