Electrician came; PDP-11 works!

From: Richard A. Cini <rcini_at_email.msn.com>
Date: Mon Dec 29 18:55:58 1997

Well, the electrician came today to upgrade my service to 200A, and laughed
when I told him that the thing that prompted me was that I got this "large,
old computer." He couldn't believe that a "residential" computer draws 30A
startup and 15A running. The sound of it amazes me, too.

Anyway, I hooked a terminal up to it and lo-and-behold, a prompt. Now, I've
never owned a PDP-11, so be gentile, here. How do I get it to run a command
shell? I have installed two RK05 drives, the 0: drive has a {supposedly
good} RT-11. Upon boot, I get the following on the terminal:

        000000 170002 170002 165360
    $

    I'm assuming that the "$" prompt is the monitor prompt. It seems to only
accept two-letter commands before performing an auto-carriage-return. The
"165360" is also on the front panel display.

    Any clues would be appreciated. I'd like to get this thing running by
the time I get back to work on 1/5. Happy New Year to all!


Rich Cini/WUGNET
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