Ok...that's very cool to know...but then if things couldn't get worse...I see this KA640
on ebay...I get currious...

So where does this fall into the picture!

I'm slowly picking together how Qbus-VAX works...

jam


----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck McManis" <cmcmanis@mcmanis.com>
To: "John Maier" <jmaier@midamerica.net>
Cc: <port-vax@netbsd.org>
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 5:04 PM
Subject: Re: uVAX II vs. uVAX III memory


> At 12:01 PM 1/18/02, John Maier wrote:
> >are you saying...
> >I can install a KA660 in conjuction with a 7622-BA in my BA123?
> >Additionally if KA660 with it's memory cards I could use it?
>
> Yup, its true. The absolute fastest Qbus only VAX you can have. The trick
> is finding the cabinet kit for the BA123. It doesn't use the "standard" one
> that the KA630, KA650, and KA655 use. The benefit is that you get a DSSI
> interface on the KA660 and with 3 16MB cards can run 48MB or with two 32MB
> cards can run 64MB.
>
> >Then to deviate a bit in thought...on Ebay there is a VAX KA670 CPU
> >L4000-AA with 32MB
> >Memory...I'm going to venture a guess that aside from being a QBUS
> >machine, that is where
> >the similarity ends with the uVAX II and the BA123 enclosure.
>
> Yes, the KA670 went to a new "processor bus" that connects it to the memory
> and the Q-bus without top connectors. In the BA440 there is a cpu "box" on
> the right hand side with special purpose memory slots and a CPU slot.
>
> --Chuck
>
>