PDP-11/45: Power Harness, continued

Sat 23 April 2016 by Fritz Mueller

Moved the power modules and partial harness back over to the racks today, got everything remounted, finished and dressed the backplane terminations, and completed the inter-H742 connections.

I did not do the runs for the backplane memory to the lower H742, as I do not have any backplane memory. I probably won't ever have any, either: these memory options are specialized to the '11/45, are quite rare, and only cover part of the available address space. Additionally, they would require me to track down the details of a backplane ECO to do the corresponding parts of the harness correctly. The core and MOS memory that I do actually have are all system-unit options anyway.

Here are some pics of the in-rack wiring in progress, and a couple views of the finished harness. If you add up the capacity of the DC modules, you'll see that an '11/45 like mine (with floating point) is provisioned with +5V at 100 [sic] amps, and -15V at 20 amps. That's no joke of a power supply...