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- From: thad@public.BTR.COM (Thaddeus P. Floryan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
- Subject: Re: Expantion board for 7300
- Message-ID: <7525@public.BTR.COM>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 00:17:02 GMT
- References: <COSC16TT.92Jul22005943@menudo.uh.edu> <1992Jul23.022322.6449@ceilidh.beartrack.com>
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- Organization: BTR Public Access UNIX, Mountain View CA
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- In article <1992Jul23.022322.6449@ceilidh.beartrack.com> dnichols@ceilidh.beartrack.com (Don Nichols (DoN.)) writes:
- >[...]
- > It is not totally clear whether you want an exPansion box, which
- >will accept more cards, or an exTension board, which would allow you to
- >measure voltages, waveforms, etc, on a board while it was connected to the
- >cpu box.
- >
- > If anybody out there has any of the latter, I too would be
- >interested in the purchase of one. The expansion box implies that I want to
- >run more cards than I think the machine can usefully support (at least while
- >one of them is an ethernet card), so I am not too interested in that.
-
- I've actually seen a "real" Convergent extension card for the 3B1. From
- my notes, it's the same width as all other cards (natch! :-) and it was
- 17-1/2" long, with one (each) of the funny connectors at end end, and bore
- the part number "PCA D-60-00213-00 (C) 1984" on one side and
- "PCB D-43-00213-00 REV.A 8/3/84" on the other side.
-
- If one has the connectors, it should be easy to make one; I've never really
- had the need, and I really have doubts about the efficacy of running
- unbuffered signals out that far and also placing such a tremendous amount
- of stress on the connectors; think about it for a sec:
-
-
- +--------------+
- | |
- | 3B1 chassis +------------------
- ________+--------------+_______ ^
- ^ |
- | extension card + expansion card
- table/countertop
-
- The expansion BOXES afford an easy method of accessing both sides of any
- single card placed in the box since the card is "on-edge".
-
- The one problem with the expansion box/chassis is that RAM cards do not
- function in it (nor do the EIA/RAM combo cards); everything else does
- work just fine in it.
-
-
- Thad Floryan [ thad@btr.com (OR) {decwrl, mips, fernwood}!btr!thad ]
-