Ah, PPC VME cards, add VXworks, funky coprocessors, COTS IO and you have definitely got something best avoided : details would involve libations.
The conduction cooled chassis are OK and worth repurposing. Contrariwise the VME bus is best avoided, whether classic 32b VME or the 64 bit revision. However, the connectors for VME 64x backplanes and the form factor have merit, but that is to depart from the past. Martin -----Original Message----- From: Wouter de Waal via cctalk [mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org] Sent: 31 January 2024 18:34 To: cctalk@classiccmp.org Cc: Wouter de Waal <w...@dw.co.za> Subject: [cctalk] Re: Vmebus > >Anyone have a VMEbus system they use at least occasionally? If so, what >make/model/config? I still use a couple of PPC VME boards (DY4 / Curtiss Wright 182/183/184, both Conduction-Cooled and Air-Cooled) to test the tail end of hardware that we are still shipping (by now EOL and basically NOS). But it's work, I don't find them interesting. If someone here has the warm fuzzies for PPC VME, we can talk :-) W
