{"id":2393,"date":"2017-07-18T12:10:47","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T12:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avitech.com.au\/?page_id=2393"},"modified":"2017-07-18T12:12:53","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T12:12:53","slug":"dec-ba23-chassis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/avitech.com.au\/?page_id=2393","title":{"rendered":"DEC BA23 Chassis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These are my rough notes regarding the DEC BA23 chassis.<\/p>\n<p>The BA23 houses the H9278A backplane.<\/p>\n<p>On the back of the H9278A there is a BA23-A breakout board for RQDXn-series controllers.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve not been able to locate any schematics for the BA23 enclosure.<\/p>\n<p>The following manuals have useful information about the BA23 breakout board (and related components, such as the front panel):<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bitsavers.trailing-edge.com\/pdf\/dec\/pdp11\/microPDP11\/EK-MIC11-TM-002_MicroPDP11_Systems_Technical_Manual_Sep85.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">MicroPDP-11 Systems Technical Manual (P\/N EK-MIC11-TM-002)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ia601002.us.archive.org\/28\/items\/bitsavers_decpdp11microPDP1153SystemSupplementJun86_4001048\/AZ-GPTAA-MC_MicroPDP11_53_System_Supplement_Jun86.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">MicroPDP-11\/53 System Supplement Manual (P\/N EK-AZ-GPTAA-MC)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scandocs.trailing-edge.com\/micropdp11-volume_2_enclosures-EK-186AA-MG-001.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">BA23 Enclosure Maintenance (Order Number EK-186AA-MG-001)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/manx-docs.org\/collections\/hcps\/glfabmn.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">VAXstation II Technical Manual, BA23 Enclosure (P\/N AZ-GLFAB-MN)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h4>Gallery<\/h4>\n<div data-carousel-extra='{&quot;blog_id&quot;:1,&quot;permalink&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/avitech.com.au\/?page_id=2393&quot;}' id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-2393 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-medium'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt 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The BA23 houses the H9278A backplane. On the back of the H9278A there is a BA23-A breakout board for RQDXn-series controllers. I&#8217;ve not been able to locate any schematics for the BA23 enclosure. The following manuals have useful information about the BA23 breakout board (and ..<\/p>\n<div class=\"clear-fix\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/avitech.com.au\/?page_id=2393\" title=\"read more...\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2393","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P7xTsk-CB","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3623,"url":"https:\/\/avitech.com.au\/?page_id=3623","url_meta":{"origin":2393,"position":0},"title":"Garage Sale on Sat 5 October 2019","author":"malcolm","date":"30-September-2019","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm doing something of a clean out of vintage computer gear, due to downsizing. This Saturday (5 October 2019) from 9am to 5pm. Factory 71, 22 Dunn Crescent, Dandenong Here's a partial list of what will be available (this list will be updated on Friday): The Free Pile DEC Networking\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2060,"url":"https:\/\/avitech.com.au\/?page_id=2060","url_meta":{"origin":2393,"position":1},"title":"MFM Hard Drives","author":"malcolm","date":"8-June-2017","format":false,"excerpt":"This page is a collection of notes regarding MFM hard drives. Drive-Select Jumper Settings When using an MFM drive on my RQDX Breakout Board, install link DS1 on the MFM drive. 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I decided to investigate these a little further last weekend, and unexpectedly found that below the TU10W is an entire PDP-11\/34 chassis with programmers panel and interfaces for the TU10W and RK07. 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