PDP era and a question

From: Daniel T. Burrows <danburrows_at_mindspring.com>
Date: Thu Aug 26 21:20:56 1999

>Other companies have made drop-in PDP-11 replacements over the years, too.
>QEI (based in MA) makes drop-in upgrades for 11/34's, 11/44's, and
>11/70's, and Setasi (in Florida) makes drop-in upgrades for 11/70's.

Correction it is QED in MA. I have one of their J11 upgrades for 11/24's - with
docs.
QEI is a DEC dealer.
There is also Nissho that I have seen info on but have never played with.


>Yes, I have run RT-11, RSX-11, and 2.11 BSD on systems that didn't
>have a single DEC hardware component in them. (For example, a Mentec
>M100 CPU and Andromeda disk controller in a third-party Q-bus backplane.)
>

The M100 I have in hand still uses the J11 however. I think the latest ones
they went away from real J11's.


Dan
Received on Thu Aug 26 1999 - 21:20:56 BST