DEC stuff

From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Thu May 11 16:57:32 2000

Joe wrote:
> worth rescueing. The first is a DEC Por 350, there are two of them.

DEC's attempt at a high-end personal computer, based on the F11 chipset
(same CPU as an PDP-11/23 or /24). Runs P/OS, a hacked version of
RSX-11/M+. Can also run RT11 or Venix.

> The other is is a Micro PDP 11/73.

BA23 cabinet. That uses the J11 CPU at 15 MHz. Standard Qbus cards.
Usually these are found with DEC RQDX1 controllers (floppy drive,
ST-506 interface hard drives). Sometimes one gets lucky and finds
a third-party ESDI or SCSI controller.

> There's also a VAX 11/785 there but it's huge!

It would be nice if someone wanted to provide a home for it, but
that seems unlikely. I'd want it myself, but not at the cost of
shipping it from Florida to California.

If it's otherwise going to be scrapped, I'd like to get the cards
and backplanes from the top half of the unit, and the PDP-11/03
and RX02 disk drive. An acquaintance has an 11/780 which is missing
the PDP-11/03. However, all of the 11/780s and 11/785s I've seen
turn up in surplus places have already had the 11/03 removed. Maybe
someone thinks they're valuable, though I can't imagine why.
Received on Thu May 11 2000 - 16:57:32 BST

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