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

[Kevin Handy]

Tony Duell wrote:

>>>No cable for the DSD setup eh?  Hmmm, must still be in the garage....
>>>It is a normal ribbon cable just as you suspect.
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>>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 
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>Yes. Just follow the normal colour code. You know :
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>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
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Magenta? Shouldn't that be violet.

Bad Beer Rots Our Young Guts, But Vodka Goes Well
Black Boys Rape Our Young Girls, But Violet Goes Willingly

<and many other, more obscene, varients>

>>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 ;)
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>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...
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>>>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.
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>>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 
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>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. 
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>-tony
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