The backplanes are the same for master and slave. On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 7:58 PM, Noel Chiappa <j...@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
> > From: William Degnan > > > I found the doc somewhere months ago sorry I can't remember where. I > > will upload to my site if I get a free moment and it's still on my > > computer. > > Thanks; that would be great. I already did find online the TU10 Maintenance > Manual (EK-TU10-MM-007), the TU10M Master System Manual (DEC-00-TU10M-D), > and > the TU10 Engineering Drawings, so we're pretty well set for these drives, > but > it would be good to have DEC-00-TU10S-DC too. > > > > $2000 if clean. > > Wow. I saw a pair of H960's, a pair of CDC 92185 tape drives, 3 Fuji > MiniEagles and an 11/23 go for $1.5K on eBait recently: > > http://www.ebay.com/itm/161928600660 > > Now, those are streaming drives, not vacuum column, but still - why is the > TU10 worth so much more? > > > Master unit double that price. > > I find this even harder to understand. The only difference between the two > is > that the Master has 7 dual Flip Chips (M640, M891, M7673, M7672, M892, > M895, > M7671) and 3 single Flip Chips (M100, M896, M958) that the Slave doesn't > have. > > (The backplane is, as far as I can tell, wired for both - the wire list > given > in the prints is for the master, and I don't see a second Slave-only > wire-list. Yes, perhaps some early Slave drives had a Slave-only backplane, > but that's just a guess. If someone who has a Slave drive can check their > backplane to see if slots 6-15 are wired, that would be very useful to > know.) > > Yes, the full set of 10 Flips Chips would be hard to find, but I have a > hard > time seeing them being worth $200 each... > > Noel >
