cctalk Digest, Vol 65, Issue 45

Francesca C. Smith fsmith at ladylinux.com
Tue Jan 20 17:07:58 CST 2009


On Tuesday 20 January 2009 17:25:42 cctalk-request at classiccmp.org wrote:
Hi Tim,

Wow Good Eye Again :-)

Yep there are markings over a couple connectors that say Aux Power And 
Restart. Someone put a piece of masking tape with +5 +12 VDC as well.

So I have a mini PDP11 right here. (Reading that link however indicates its a 
little short on power. Makes one's head spin as this prob predates the IBM PC 
and what a different world we could have had if Digital had Bill Gates port 
86-DOS to this rather than the IBM PC. 

Oh wait I kinda like my Digital hardware by and large spared the indignity of 
running M$ anything. :-) Bad enough the Alpha was polluted with that half 
hearted Win NT port. 


> Another thought about the SB-11... were those connectors on the back for
> sending power to a companion TU-58 drive? Is the SB-11 the same form factor
> as the external TU-58 enclosure? We never used them like that, we had
> a top-bottom stacked dual 8" drive from... MTI? hooked to our SB-11.
>
> Tim.

-- 
Kindest Regards,

No Problems Only Solutions
Hosting Admins
Baltimore, Maryland


More information about the cctech mailing list