1 Occasionally, the list of things I really should be working on gets a little
2 overwhelming. Late last night was one of those times. So, I spent a couple
3 hours playing with the pile of PDP-11 parts...
5 Took the BA-11N apart far enough to extract the backplane, and added the wires
6 necessary to support 22-bit addressing. Put everything back together, and had
7 a bit of a scare since I couldn't seem to get the console talking to me
8 again. Found a problem in my serial cabling, after which all was well.
10 Dug the DELQA out of the stack, stuck it in the chassis below the KDJ11-D/S,
11 and confirmed that the Decserver 550 firmware still in the CPU board was able
14 Extracted the CQD-223/TM SCSI board from the s-box front panel it came in,
15 and realized it's not going to fit into the slot spacing of the BA11-N as-is.
16 The problem is that the 50-pin header for the drive cable is straight, so by
17 the time you put a cable on it the stack is too thick for a backplane
19 need to scare up a Qbus continuity card or something to let me
20 skip a slot and give the card double height, or alternatively I can replace
21 the 50-pin header with a right-angle box header and the card should fit...
23 At that point, I decided I'd made enough progress, and called it a night.