Hi,

I might purchase some VAX boards for a good price, which I need
to negotiate first and I need some help with finding out if I
can use those in a VAX 6000-400 and/or -600 (XMI, VAXBI) machine.
Here goes the list and following are specific questions

T1010           DWBUA VAXBI-UNIBUS adapter (BI side)
T1022/1023      DRB32, VAXBI-DRB adapter and DR11-W adapter
T1031           KFBTA (AIE) BI RD Drive Controller
T1060           VAX 9000 PEM Module
T2020           XMI/NI controller
T2022/2023      KDM70 XMI-SI adapter pair
T2027           DEMFA XMI-FDDI controller
T2028-AA        XMI-LSB adapter
T2029-AB    	XMI-SCSI adapter
T2036-AA        KFSMA, XMI-DSSI adapter
T2080-YA        CIXCD-AC XMI-CI adapter (for AXP and VAX 7k/10k)

The intriguing thing about this pile is that it's relatively
unusual hardware. I don't have this stuff yet and I don't get
it for free. If you want any of it, chime in and tell me what
you'd spend. I could make a bundle order that can give yet a
better basis for negotiation.


Detail:

T1010           DWBUA VAXBI-UNIBUS adapter (BI side)
- what cab-kit assembly is needed, is this something extremely
   hard to find? Can you give a model number for the cab-kit so
   I might find it somewhere?
- I might want that because I plan to have a UNIBUS cabinet
   besides a VAX 11/780 in the near future. I could kind of
   swap the Unibus between the two machines. And I could use
   the UNIBUS frame buffer set that I might also get sometime.

T1022/1023      DRB32, VAXBI-DRB adapter and DR11-W adapter
T1031           KFBTA (AIE) BI RD Drive Controller
- what the heck are DRB bus and what are the accessories needed
   to do anything useful with it?
- and what are RD drives? Old junk? Are those available?
   How are they connected to the KFBTA?

T1060           VAX 9000 PEM Module
- there is actually a bunch of other 9000 modules. Anything
   useful to do with this in a VAX 6000's BI bus?

T2020           XMI/NI controller
- is this an XMI ethernet controller? Can it be used in
   an 6400 XMI bus? 6600? or only a 7000 and 10000?

T2022/2023      KDM70 XMI-SI adapter pair
- SI bus? Is this yet another disk/tape storage bus? Availability
   of disks? Old or new? This isn't the same as SBI (11/780) or
   SDI (KDB50) right?

T2027           DEMFA XMI-FDDI controller
- This should work on a 6400 XMI bus, right?

T2028-AA        XMI-LSB adapter
- Laser bus? That's the 10000's bus, right? I assume that
   would require a whole LSB backplane, power, etc. etc.,
   not feasible with a VAX 6000.

T2029-AB    	XMI-SCSI adapter
- Just checking: are these -AA, -AB, etc. suffixes anything
   that can make or break 6400 XMI compatibility?

T2036-AA        KFSMA, XMI-DSSI adapter
- dito -AA -AB, etc. any issues there?

T2080-YA        CIXCD-AC XMI-CI adapter (for AXP and VAX 7k/10k)
- dito. This sounds like a cool alternative for a faster
   CI link than through the BI bus.


Your comments on any or all of the above are appreciated.
And let me know if your heart is longing for anything of
it and how much you would pay. (I don't make a profit from
this, I'm trying to get a good price on a bulk order.)

thanks,
-Gunther

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Gunther Schadow, M.D., Ph.D.                    gschadow@regenstrief.org
Medical Information Scientist      Regenstrief Institute for Health Care
Adjunct Assistant Professor        Indiana University School of Medicine
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