Re: need help with part number

[Paul Koning <paulkoning%comcast.net@localhost>]

On Feb 9, 2014, at 2:00 PM, Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 01:45:22PM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
>> 
>>  I've been digging for hours and can't find this.  I need the DEC part
>> number for either (preferably both) of the two cabinet kits for the
>> KFMSA board, which is an XMI DSSI controller.  They are CK-KFMSA-LJ and
>> CK-KFMSA-LN, but I need the part numbers.  Can anyone help me out?
> 
> What you need is the "Option Module" book that maps all the part numbers
> and names to each other.  I think its full title was either "Option Module
> Handbook" or "Option Module Manual".  Of course really it's not either,
> it is just a gigantic index.  Roughly the size and shape of a large telephone
> book when I last saw a paper copy in the mid 1990s.
> 
> I should have that very copy around somewhere but I'm having trouble
> finding it.  I would think this must have been placed online and that
> copies would have leaked out somehow -- but Google is not finding any
> for me today!

It’s called the “option/module list”.  A number of editions are on Bitsavers in 
/pdf/dec/modules/modulesAndOptions/ .

        paul