From: Bdale Garbee Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 06:02:00 +0000 (-0600) Subject: post X-Git-Url: https://git.gag.com/?p=web%2Fgag.com;a=commitdiff_plain;h=d331c1fafd4d5b02e117936c4f36f1abb7069e34;ds=sidebyside post --- diff --git a/bdale/blog/posts/BA-11N_Arrives.mdwn b/bdale/blog/posts/BA-11N_Arrives.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dd17c62 --- /dev/null +++ b/bdale/blog/posts/BA-11N_Arrives.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +The BA-11N expansion chassis arrived today. Managed to scrape my left thigh +getting it out of the box, no permanent harm done. As promised, it looks +brand newish. Figured out how to get the cover off, then powered it up with +no cards and all looked ok. The +12V supply was more like +10V, but with no +load it's hard to know what to really expect. + +Drilled out the rivets holding the s-box front panel hardware to the KDJ11 +board, and put it into the top slot. Extracted the little front panel board +from the s-box hardware, snarfed an MMJ serial cable from the vax, and the +board came up! Hitting ctrl/c on the console after the LED display started +alternating between E and F gave me a console monitor interface. 9600N81 + +So... once we have an ethernet card, it might be possible to bootload something +using mopd into RAM? To what end? + +The backplane in this chassis should be set for 18-bit addresses. Will need +to tear the chassis apart to get the backplane out and add jumpers to connect +the other 4 address bits since the CPU should be emitting 22-bit addresses. + +[[!tag tags/retro]]