[geeks] CP1500 Marathon box...

[roosmcd at dds.nl]

> On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 03:52:59PM -0700, Matthew Poertner wrote:
> > What I'd like to know is if this CP1500 board will fit in another box,
> > what kind of box, and will it cost me a fortune?  The box has one
> > additional cPCI slot on it but the backplane doesn't seem to match the
> > cards I see on ebay.
>
> As far as what boxes you can put it in, I'm aware of only two :
> * F12/15K as a system controller. However buying an F15K just to use
> it as an enclosure for a CP1500 is probably a little excessive :)
> * There's an exclosure which is designed to be used as a development
> chassis for the CPxxxx boards. I've got no idea how generally available
> they are, but I'd except they would appear on ebay every now and again.
> And no, you can't have mine :)

 The good thing about the compactpci standard is that is a standard. Just buy 
yourself an enclosure that adheres to the compactpci standard and you can run 
your CP1500 board inside. 

  greetings,
    Michiel

ps. I have 3 CP1500 boards I'm selling if anybody is interested. Two with 
360Mhz processors and one with 333MHz processor. Ram in 64, 128 and 256Mb, one 
each and also two transition modules.