BA11V

[Allison]

>
>Subject: BA11V
>   From: ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell)
>   Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 23:00:54 +0100 (BST)
>     To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
>
>> 
>> Sounds nice.  I have a few BA-11VA (four dual width slots)
>> and it's a challange to put enough boards to make a bootable
>> viable  sytem in that.  An 11/23, 256k ram, DLV11J and a Rom
>
>As an aside, there was a thing in the UK called a 'York box' (I believe 
>it was developed at the University of York) to link machines to the 
>X25-based Janet (Joint Academic NETwork).
>
>It consisted of a BA11V box containing an SBC21 (Falcon) CPU, a 32KW RAM 
>card, a RRV11 (parallel port) and a DPV11 (sync serial port). The 
>DPV11 talked to the X25 network, the host system was connected either 
>using the DRV11 (16 bit parallel interface) or using one of the 
>asynchrononous serial interfaces on the SBC21.
>
>I belive it was used with VAX and certainly PERQ hosts (I think I have 
>the EPRQ software for it somewhere, I do have a York box in the pile...)

Back here (and at DEC) we used them for RDC (remote diagnostic controller)
also a falcon, a MXV11 or two (serial, rom and ram). 


Allison