'Funny' and 'Plessey' in the same sentence? I agree with that!
They were very funny about warranty expiration in the early days, probably because they had so many field failures. I bought four DL-11 equivalents from them once, all laden with ECO wires. When I called to say I could only get one of them working, they were surprised that I got that many!
Years later a ham radio buddy who was at Plessey at the time remembers those days and the technician who was honest!
I would say it is warranty expiration! cheers, Nigel On 2024-03-25 20:24, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
So, sorting thru stuff I came across this white elephant again. I never found anything to positively identify it but I always assumed it was some kind of buss extender. One board is fully populated with chips and the other connected together with a ribbon cable is totally passive. But this time I found the funniest thing about it. The passive end has a sticker on it with an expiration date. I have to admit I have never found an expiration date on any of my PDP or VAX hardware before. :-) bill
-- Nigel Johnson, MSc., MIEEE, MCSE VE3ID/G4AJQ/VA3MCU Amateur Radio, the origin of the open-source concept! Skype: TILBURY2591
