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From: stern@tilt.FUN
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Subject: Re: vme bus couplers?
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Date: Thu, 20-Feb-86 18:05:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 20 18:05:00 1986
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Nf-From: tilt!stern    Feb 20 18:05:00 1986

You can get VME Bus Extenders (or couplers, whatever you call them) from
two places that I know of:

	HVE Hal-Versa Engineering
	1684 Dell Avenue
	Campbell CA  95008
	408 370-4666

	
	VME Microsystems International Corp
	12021 N South Memorial Parkway
	Huntsville, AL  35803
	205 880-0444

We have ordered two extenders from VME Microsystems.  They cost 
about $1,200 each; this price includes a master card, a slave card, and 
three 96-pin 5 foot cables.  The slave card goes into the bus where
your main master is (ie, CPU) and the master card goes into a satellite
slave bus.  The only real restriction is that the satellite bus can
only have slave devices on it.  The VME Repeat Link from VMIC is
a full A32:D32 device, unlike the extender from HVE Engineering, which
drops a few bits (8, if I remember correctly).

--Hal Stern
  Princeton University
  {ihnp4, seismo, allegra}!princeton!stern