This is one way cool looking box -- how hard would it be to build one from
"scratch"? It would be neat to have a PDP-11 laptop (apart from running
simh, of course)!
-- Tony
At 04:57 PM 7/31/2001 -0400, you wrote:
> >Wow - Megan, got any more details on that "laptop" ? I dont
> >see it listed on your web page..
>
>I haven't taken pictures of it yet...
>
>I'd like to try to get RT on it. The caption with the picture
>is a little incorrect... RT-11 is not a BASIC-like program...
>and I suspect it didn't make it as a product because of a couple
>of things... need for AC power, limited display (4 lines x 40 chars),
>a single diskette...
>
>As for the diskette being proprietary, I talked with someone at
>VCF-east and they said that they though that *really* early
>3.5" diskettes were different from what we are used to now...
>he thought he might have a drive and some media... (if you
>are reading this, whoever, please contact me).
>
>If I can get an old drive to attach to a regular -11, I could
>try to load up RT on it and then try to boot the machine.
>
>As for the machine, it has a 4x40 LCD display, 3.5" diskette,
>2 serial lines, some sort of port on the back for something
>(maybe another diskette?) and has a T-11 chip. The 'terminal'
>part of it looks sorta like a VT100 (with a SETUP A like screen)
>and it has rom code at 173000... uODT recognizes the B command
>as boot from the floppy.
>
>The machine is proto #6... I've not seen any others in all the
>years since...
>
> Megan Gentry
> Former RT-11 Developer
>
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