In the latest trip that Allison and I took to collect some hardware,
I got an RL01 and an RL11. I've now installed the RL01 in the rack
with the 11/34a and have plugged the RL11 into the machine. I
haven't yet located a cable, but that shouldn't be too hard given
some time (now where did I put my stockroom?)
I've also prettied it up a little by adding another black plastic
panel to the front, so it looks pretty good. Next step is to also
locate a cable to connect the DL11-W to a terminal, and I can check
if it boots with one of the numerous RL01 disks I got this weekend.
In the same trip, I also got another 11/34a, which had numerous
non-dec boards in it, but also had an FP11, which is now in the
machine I've been working on.
Since I may sell 11/34a I got the other day, I did some work on
it this morning to clean it up and configure it with at least
the processor, memory (16kw), boot board and a serial interface. I
vacuumed all the old filter out of the backplane, put in the
boards and it mostly worked... one strange thing is that when
I put in the UNIBUS terminator, I get bus hangs. When I remove
it, I don't... Anyway, I'll have to toggle in some short code
segments to see if the CPU will execute code (actually, I think
it was executing the boot cood...hmmm)
Anyway, that's the latest on those machines...
I'll have a newer picture of the 11/34a up on my web page later
today...
Megan Gentry
Former RT-11 Developer
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Received on Tue Apr 13 1999 - 11:51:34 BST