Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!ptimtc!nntp-server.caltech.edu!news From: ptok@void.caltech.edu (phillip tokumaru) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: 030 + 040 in single cube ... the solution! Message-ID: <1991May2.111001.26346@nntp-server.caltech.edu> Date: 2 May 91 11:10:01 GMT References: <1991May2.070624.262@cbnewse.att.com> Sender: news@nntp-server.caltech.edu Reply-To: ptok@void.caltech.edu Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Lines: 12 In article <1991May2.070624.262@cbnewse.att.com> tyc@cbnewse.att.com (felix.a.lugo) writes: > > Well, for those who said that it couldn't be done ... here it is ... > The procedure for using two motherboards on a single NeXTcube! > > [a lot of Frankenstein-like stuff deleted] Couldn't you (for < $80) put the poor old 030 board in an enclosure with a power supply, and then ground the proper NUBUS ID on the connector? (I vaguely remember seeing an early 030 with an empty IC socket, I thought it was for the NUBUS logic...anyone else remember something like that?)