PDP-11/44 boot prompt

From: Mitch Wright <mew_jac_at_swbell.net>
Date: Sun Nov 1 18:23:01 1998

I agree, hunting the manuals and schematics could take awhile. The
hardware seems to be around. Just need to snoop around for a large site
deinstallation, could be a lot of these in the next few years. The sad
part is in the late 80's and early 90's I put into the dumpster a bunch
of this stuff.

--Mitch


Tony Duell wrote:
>
> > I was looking for somrthing more along the line of an 11/34 but you
> > gott'ya take what comes your way.
>
> Yep... As I've said to a few people : "I'd not recomend a PDP11/45 as you
> first -11, an 11/05 or something is a lot easier to start out with. But
> _I_ started on an 11/45 because that's what I was offered".
>
> > I'm mostly looking for documenation now, which might take some time to
> > track down.
>
> Well, although I've mananged to obtain a couple of shelf-fulls of PDP11
> docs and (especially) printsets, it wasn't that easy. I've spent a good
> few years hunting for old manuals, geting and repairing 'scrap' boards,
> etc.
>
> My first PDP11 (the 11/45) came with no peripherals at all. Not even a
> DL11 console port. Oh, there was an RK11-C, but no RK05s to link to it.
> I got the printsets but no user manuals, so I didn't have a clue as to
> what the instruction set was. Oh, and there was no memory. I was given a
> MUD card (I didn't know what it was called) but no backplane. First job
> was to modify the only DD11 I had to take an MUD RAM card.
>
> It took me nearly a year to find a DL11 and some disk drives. In that
> time I'd managed to borrow a DEC microprocessor handbook - the 11/23
> instruction set was near enough to let me write programs. And then I
> obtained a few handbooks, a DZ11, a few more prints, etc. Finally I got a
> disk unit, a couple of DL11s, some realtime I/O cards, etc.
>
> -tony
Received on Sun Nov 01 1998 - 18:23:01 GMT