rx01 w/o controller board

[Ashley Carder]

> >> the connection from the controller board (UNIBUS or QBUS) is a
> >> straight cable AFAIK. The RX01 and RX02 exist as a table top box and
> >> uses a DB25 connector to the controller.
> >
> >Not all RX01's have a DB25 to connect to the controller, on the ones I 
> >recovered with an 11/23 system (rackmount drives), there's just a 
> >ribbon cable connecting the two berg connectors on the controller and 
> >drive together.
> 
> The ones with DB25 were used with Decmate-1 all others only had a 
> ribbon cable exiting the box at a bracket to support the cable. 
> the DECmate-1 version FYI still has the same baords and cable 
> hookup internally so it is usable with any system (after setting
> internal dipswitch).
> 
> Allison

My RX01 with a DB25 was used with an 11/03 in an office back in the late
1970s and 1980s.  A null modem cable was used to connect from a serial
line in the back of the 11/03 to the DB25 on the back of the tabletop RX01.

Ashley