Hi,

> 	>2.  The original boardset had a bus load card (a big board full of
> 	>    power dissipation bus loading resistors), a M90xx something.
> 	>    Is that really required with a 4000/200 cpu, or is that only
> 	>    supposed to be used when the boardset lightly loads the power
> 	>    busses?  Is it actually functioning as a bus terminator card
> 	>    rather than a true bus load card?
> 
> 	It is just a load card. The BA200 series boxes have two PSUs,
> 	one for each half of the Qbus slots. These are (IIRC) switched mode
> 	PSUs and they don't run unless there is a minimum load
> 	present. Usually the processor plus memory is
> 	enough to run the RH PSU and a KDA50 is enough
> 	for the LH PSU.

There are? When I got my 3300 (in a BA215 I think) - it's only got the one
PSU that I could see - on the left. Unless there's something I don't know
about. I know the BA213 has dual PSUs tho - but that's got 12 slots rather
than 6.

-- Matt

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