Re: [nznog] What is this?

Don Stokes wrote:

Lindsay Druett wrote:

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Are we talking 5 of those plus enough spare parts to build another one :) http://www.lindsay.geek.nz/images/Cisco_AGS_Parts/

Multibus-Cbus bridge cards for an AGS+, and microcode roms for same. The AGS+ chassis came with a 5-slot Cbus backplane -- that's the connector on the right (component side up), but by default it wasn't connected to anything. You needed those cards to talk to it, as the CPU only talked via the Multibus backplane (which was the only backplane you got on an AGS). You could then add 6-port Ethernet or FDDI cards. Cbus cards could transfer data between them along the Cbus, taking load off the (relatively slow) Multibus.

I've encountered the old Cisco AGS+ in the collection of UoWs of old equipment when I worked there. http://www.lindsay.geek.nz/images/Cisco_AGS/ I wasn't there at the time when it happened, but it is the only equipment I found that closely matches the description. Maybe it was a similar deal to VUW's three AGSs.