VAX-11/730

[Tony Duell]

> > Much the same, but with a TS05 (Cipher F880) 9-track mag-tape drive in
> > place of the RL02, and a TSU05 controller in one of the Unibus slots.
> 
> Ah... I'd forgotten about that configuration, but I don't think it was
> very common.  A TU80 alongside was somewhat common.

That's the configuration my machine came in (A friend and I bought a pair 
of them). TS05 in the top, TSU05 card in the CPU box.

It was a standard DEC configuration, it was mentioned explicitly in one 
of the manuals.

>  
> > There are 2 serial ports (Console and Remote Diagnostics) built into the
> > CPU. You can add things like the DZ11 if you want more.
> 
> There's room in the I/O bulkheads for a DMF-32 (8 async, 1 sync, 1
> printer), and IIRC, it was somewhat common.

My 11/730 came with a BA11 10.5" expansion box (BA11-K IIRC). It 
contained a DMF32, and something else which I forget. There was a little 
card in the Unibus Out slot of the CPU backplane that linked to the 
bulkhead with 3 ribbon cables, That took a flat screened cable with 3 
connectors on each end that went to a similar bulkhead on the expansion 
rack, then 3 more ribbon cables to the Unibus In slot of the first 
backplane in the BA11.  Again a standard DEC configuration according to 
the manuals I have.

-tony