On Tuesday, March 25, 2003, at 02:20 PM, Jochen Kunz wrote:
>>    An 8200 uses a BA32 BI-bus chassis...which is a 6U rackmount box.
> Don't say you own one?

   I have an 8350.

   Take an 8200 and stick a second KA820 CPU in the box and it becomes 
an 8300.  An 8200 with a newer KA825 CPU module (just optimized 
microcode if memory serves) is an 8250, adding a second KA825 CPU makes 
it an 8350.  It's currently in Brian Hechinger's care.  Sweet machine.

>> It's actually quite small.  They're *always* mounted in a short rack,
> Like that PDP-11/34A I am currently restoring. As you need access to 
> the
> bottom of the BA11-K that houses the actual machine for wiring the
> UniBus grant jumpers, you can't mount it in the bottom of the RK07 rack
> that comes with the machine. So you end up with two half height, half
> filled racks.

   Ahhh I love RK07s.  I hope to own one again someday.  The 11/34a that 
I had while I was in high school had an RK07...I had to run extension 
cords into other rooms to run the machine off of three circuits in my 
grandmother's apartment. :-)  That was a *big* PDP-11.

> BTW: Is it sick if you by a sandblast unit to repair a computer? ;-)

   Maybe a little. ;)

       -Dave

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