11/45 is alive (I'm singing "who's johnny")

[Tony Duell]

> > No cable for the DSD setup eh?  Hmmm, must still be in the garage....
> > It is a normal ribbon cable just as you suspect.
> I bought a 26 conductor 10 foot rainbow ribbon cable yesterday, along with a 
> few 2x13 IDC connectors. So, I'll just make my own connector. As I recall, 
> rainbow ribbon cables normally use brown for pin 1. I also bit the bullet 

Yes. Just follow the normal colour code. You know :

0      1   2        3  4    5    6    7   8  9
Better Buy Resistor Or Your Grid Bias May Go West
L      R   E        R  E    R    L    A   R  H
A      O   D        A  L    E    U    G   E  I
C      W            N  L    E    E    E   Y  T
K      N            G  O    N         N      E
                    E  W              T
                                      A

> and bought an IDC crimp tool, I've used a bench vise in the past and it just 
> doesn't work well - too many broken connectors ;)

Odd... I've crimped dozens of connectors in the vice and had no problems. 
If it's a connector with exposed pins, like those DIL transition headers, 
I put the pins into a pluigblock type of 'breadboard' first. It's about 
all seid breadboards are useful for...

> > As for mounting the RL01, there is still an H-960 sitting here!
> > I think I also have a box of floppy disks for the DSD setup.
> I have an H-960 spare. I was REALLY hoping to make the 11/45 a single bay 
> setup, but it doesn't seem that is really possible. I'll have to hunt up a 

Why not? In one of my H960s, I have the 11/45 CPU with it's PSUs (bottom 
3 bays). Then an RX02 -- that doesn't obstruct the cooling to the CPU 
from what I've found. Then an RK05, but you could put an RL there. On top 
is the RK11-C controller at the front and its H720 PSU at the back. 

-tony