[rescue] SBUS Expansion (was Re: more goodness available.... lots of SBUS / MBUS)

[Ahmed Ewing]

On Jun 22, 2006, at 11:43 AM, Shirker wrote:

> On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>
>> One thing that would help is a list of part numbers and other
>> identifications, if you have them.
>
> I have them. The card is 501-1840. The backplate contains only an 
> 80-pin
> HD connector (like an overgrown SCSI connector) and the words "SBus
> EXPANSION" above it.

OSIAH has multiple shots of the SBus card, confirming Shirker's 
(snipped) detailed description:

http://sunstuff.org/hardware/partnumbers/501/1/8/4/0/

> For the archives, the cable is 530-1855, and the actual expansion box
> itself is 605-1313 aka X1072 aka Model 148.

Pic of the Model 148 enclosure:

http://www.andovercg.com/ebay/images/sun_sbus_expansion.jpg

If this link breaks, you aren't really missing much... it looks like a 
typical SS1/2 enclosure externally.

Just a couple contributions to the archives for posterity :-)

-A