Re: DEC BA213 and BA213 S-boxes?

2018-03-31 Thread Bill Degnan via cctalk
On Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 4:26 PM Glen Slick via cctech wrote: > On Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 9:04 AM, Bill Degnan via cctech > wrote: > > > > FYI - Not sure if I mentioned this but I too am working on setting up a > > DECServer 550 to be an 11/83. Useful

Re: DEC BA213 and BA213 S-boxes?

2018-03-31 Thread Glen Slick via cctalk
On Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 9:04 AM, Bill Degnan via cctech wrote: > > FYI - Not sure if I mentioned this but I too am working on setting up a > DECServer 550 to be an 11/83. Useful tips recently, thanks all. > b Using an M7554 KDJ11-D DECserver 550 CPU (in which case it

Re: DEC BA213 and BA213 S-boxes?

2018-03-31 Thread Douglas Taylor via cctalk
Ethan; I have owned both BA213 and BA215 microvaxes.  The one recurring problem I had was with the power supplies, H7868 I think the number is. Luckily, I picked up a couple of Dec Serv 550's which gave me spares and a PDP11/53 S box CPU. I was able to run the PDP11 in one of the VAX based BA

Re: DEC BA213 and BA213 S-boxes?

2018-03-31 Thread Bill Degnan via cctalk
On Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 11:45 AM, Douglas Taylor via cctech < cct...@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Ethan; > > I have owned both BA213 and BA215 microvaxes. The one recurring problem I > had was with the power supplies, H7868 I think the number is. > Luckily, I picked up a couple of Dec Serv 550's

Re: DEC BA213 and BA213 S-boxes?

2018-03-31 Thread Glen Slick via cctalk
On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 10:14 PM, Ethan Dicks via cctalk wrote: > > I have a BA123 "World Box" and it's great. I know a BA213 is roughly > the same size, but I've never had one. The BA215 looks more > interesting to me as a match for size and power requirements (1 PSU >

DEC BA213 and BA213 S-boxes?

2018-03-30 Thread Ethan Dicks via cctalk
Hi, All, Watching some of the recent traffic about what newer Qbus boards will and won't work with 2.11BSD, I've remembered a thing I was once looking for. Back when I did DEC hardware for a living, we stopped buying new stuff after we got a MicroVAX-II. As such, I have plenty of LSI-11 to