iainmaoileoin
Experienced Member
Mechanical hackwork.
This might help others in the same position as me.
I needed some more network cards for my farm of qbus PDP11s.
Nothing native was appearing on e-pay.
But there were/are a number of microvax DELQA-SA M7516-PA boards.
I bought one, drilled out the rivets holding the card to the vax "card holder",
moved the fuse/transciever connection to the baulkhead(sp) and hey-presto
I have a working card that operates well on 2.11 BSD.
So now my farm is talking.
qe0: DEC DELQA addr 00:00:f8:50:90:15
The fuse on the units I got were spade connectors, so I did not even have to get
sore fingers working my blunder-bus of a soldering iron.
Brutal hackwork I know but how else do I get rlogin, rsh, ftp and rmt working?
If only the unibus stuff was so easy.
This might help others in the same position as me.
I needed some more network cards for my farm of qbus PDP11s.
Nothing native was appearing on e-pay.
But there were/are a number of microvax DELQA-SA M7516-PA boards.
I bought one, drilled out the rivets holding the card to the vax "card holder",
moved the fuse/transciever connection to the baulkhead(sp) and hey-presto
I have a working card that operates well on 2.11 BSD.
So now my farm is talking.
qe0: DEC DELQA addr 00:00:f8:50:90:15
The fuse on the units I got were spade connectors, so I did not even have to get
sore fingers working my blunder-bus of a soldering iron.
Brutal hackwork I know but how else do I get rlogin, rsh, ftp and rmt working?
If only the unibus stuff was so easy.