DEC DSSI thingy

[Dan Williams]

On 29/10/05, Tom Peters <tpeters at mixcom.com> wrote:
> Hey, what's this thing? Some alpha board?
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> It has Digital logo all over, pen scribbles on the outside of the box
> saying "Single DSSI controller for 4000's" and the barcodes read
> "54-22444-01" "B01" and "KA344DFR04"
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> Inside is static bag containing 4 inch by 3.75 inch pc board. The big chip
> (surface mount) with a zillion pins has a 1"x1" two-fin heat sink. There's
> another two small chips and what looks like mebbe a 16.000000 mhz
> clock/osc.  Three address jumpers marked "4" "2" "1"
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> Connector on top looks like 96 to 100 pins, shaped like a scsi SCA but longer.
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> Connector on card edge is 50 pin blue with locking ears.
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> Silk screen reads "DSSI Daughter card" Back 'o screws and bracket in the
> box too.
>
> Anybody want it? Any reasonable offer accepted, meaning offer me more than
> I paid for it (not much) plus shipping and it's yours.
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According to the part number it's a vax 4000-100 Dual Dssi controller.

Dan