Subject: Re: VAX 11/780
To: Peter Garay <pgaray@bigfoot.com>
From: Varga Akos Endre <hamster@telnet.hu>
List: port-vax
Date: 07/07/2000 13:15:19
On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Peter Garay wrote:
> > > Do the TPA have a normal Unibus?
> > Well, sort of. It's called UNIBUS, and the contacting fingers and slots
> think was called UBUS
Yup. I think UBUS modules are easier to insert into the slots because
it has only three "fingers" instead of six on a hex-height DEC module.
I got a picture of thsi at http://telnet.hu/hamster/tpa/triplaubus.jpg
> You had cables that had UBUS connectors on one and end UNIBUS on the other, so
> systems had a nice co-existence of Eastern and Western parts... :-)
Yes, it was sooooo complicated :-) As you can see at
http://telnet.hu/hamster/tpa/uniubus.jpg :)
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