Much swearing - was Re: Do-It-Yourself PDP-11 help!

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Thu Feb 17 10:23:17 2005

On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Pete Turnbull wrote:

> On Feb 17 2005, 9:05, Paul Koning wrote:
> > >>>>> "Pete" == Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com> writes:
> >
> > Pete> You're assuming the CPU still provides termination at its end.
> > Pete> Without that, the lines will be floating.
> >
> > True, but doesn't the CPU always terminate everything, since it's
> > intended to live at one end of the bus?
>
> Yes, unless it has a broken terminator resistor pack, which is where
> this subthread started :-)

It was the Baydel console card that had the terminators on it, and that's
at the end of the bus opposite the CPU.

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