Quoting Jerome Fine <jhfine_at_idirect.com>:
> Jeffrey S. Sharp wrote:
> > I'm actually going to get my first PDP11 this summer
>
> I still can remember when I bought my first PDP-11. It was a VT103
> box with a DSD 880/8 for the hard disk drive and floppy. I had
> already used RT-11 for over a decade at that point, but could never
> cost justify my own system.
>
> Have you decided which OS(s) you are going to run. If you need help
> with RT-11, perhaps I can find some manuals for you. But they are
> very heavy. Even if free, the shipping will cost a fair bit.
My original inroad to classic computing was the discovery of Unix many
years ago (well, many to me), so I am admittedly biased towards it.
However, I plan on trying out all the major OSes that ran on machines
like my future one(s), including RT11.
--
Jeffrey S. Sharp
jss_at_ou.edu
Received on Sun Apr 08 2001 - 17:37:04 BST