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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