QBus termination?

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Mon Feb 7 21:04:34 2005

On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Patrick Finnegan wrote:

> > I also have a Qbus terminator board. No bootROMs or diags, just
> > the terminator.
>
> I've got one of those (M9400) from my 11/03 that's in my 11/780, so I
> guess I discounted that. None of the machines I've had have *required*
> termination in order to work, however.

The M9400-YA does have boot PROMs. I've got one in this 11/23. The weird
thing is that the DSD-440 controller was in this system originally, and it
has its own boot PROMs. However, the terminator is in a second bus
segment. Does that make a difference?

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