DEC UNI/Q-BUS board physical size?

Brad Parker brad at heeltoe.com
Mon Mar 7 13:39:00 CST 2005


"Ulf Andersson" wrote:
>Hello Gents & Ladies,
>
>anyone here know anything about the physical dimensions of
>UNIBUS and Q-BUS boards? I'd like to know, that's all.

I was just thinking about that this morning :-)

Does anyone have a blueprint which shows the "spec" dimensions?

I could use a micrometer but I thought it must be in a print somewhere.

And, while I'm asking, anyone have thoughts on what will happen to QBUS
or Unibus backplane connector if I put a card with fingers which are
HASL finished (hot air solder layer) as opposed to gold?

The idea is that a production board would have gold fingers but a
prototype might just be "blown solder over copper", i.e. HASL.  I'm just
wondering if the solder will damage the backplane fingers.  I realize
that over time the solder will form channels and may stop working - I'm
not worried about that for a prototype.

-brad



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