[rescue] WTB: Good 'antique' computer for education

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Thu Jul 26 18:28:05 CDT 2001


wonko at arkham.ws writes:

>as far as how small you can make an -11 or a VAX, an -11 that doesn't need Q/CD
>(the dual width LSI-11 CPU cards are perfect for this) will fit very nicely
>into a BA11 cage, rack mount, 2U, 4 QBus slots.  i've got an 11/03 in a BA11-M
>and if i replace the quad width MFM controller with my dual width MFM controller
>i can put an ethernet card in this thing.  not bad for such a small space (CPU,
>64K RAM, four port serial [one for console], boot terminator, MFM controller
>and ethernet card)

I was under the impression that a quad-width q-bus slot could not accomodate 
two dual-wide cards.

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