DEC 11/45 build - advice sought, parts requested possibly.

[Ethan Dicks]

On 7/8/05, Jay West <jwest at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> Ok, so the obvious question is...
> 
> If I add a 2nd bay.....
> 
> 1) How unobtanium are the parts necessary to bolt the two H960 racks
> together?

I don't remember ever afixing H960s together - just cranking down the
feet so they didn't move.  Newer racks (like the 42" corporate-style
cabs) _did_ have panels to lock racks together, but I think that was a
new thing in the early 1980s.

> 2) Can the MF11-L be present in the machine along with the M7891 in the BA11
> (in the 2nd rack)? Can both the core and the semiconductor be used at the
> same time? Or do I need to pull the core boards out of the MF11 to use the
> M7891 in the BA11?

Ooh... can't help with something that processor specific, sorry.  If I
had to guess, it'd be easier to have one or the other, not both.  In
the case of semi-modern OSes, I wouldn't worry about core - it's
really nice when you are loading things from papertape and when you
are toggling bootstraps, but when you can press a switch to load fresh
from the boot disk, the non-volatility of core is less important.

-ethan