PDP 11/44 Want List -

From: John Lawson <jpl15_at_panix.com>
Date: Tue Oct 8 17:48:00 2002

 The 11/44 I rescued is actually two complete systems in one rack. Last
night I got around to turning up the other system, and was greeted by the
snapping of circuit breakers and the blowing of fuses.. aaahhrg!

  Anyway, the H7140 power supply wanted some TLC which it got, but when
recieved, the 'B' system was minus it's Data Paths card, and there were
two spares among all the doc and other stuff, one labled "bad board".
Neither of the two spares work in the 'good' system, and the one from the
good system allows the monitor to sign on, but giving a ??CP HUNG result.
so I have some bus grant/NPG jumer work to do - not a problem.

  What IS a problem is that I need one (or two) fuctioning M7904 cards to
make it work, as a printset for the individual CPU cards seems not be
included in the stack I got.

 I am also in the market for two or three DD11-CK Single Backplane assy's.

  Then, another couple of RL02 drives would round out things. I have found
a nice 9trk subsystem.

  I know it's useless to ask about a Unibus SCSI card, so it's possible
that I'll end up buying one... yuk.

 Hmmm... come to think of it, an RX02 might be fun, in case of software
finds on Floppies.

  I will be brining the working system to VCF 5, as well as (possibly) a
PR1ME 750. I will be in wheel/deal mode then... I'd like to hear back
from folks who might have some of the above wanted hardware, who will be
at VCF - we can make a deal and do gthe exchange at Moffet Field.

  All for now...

  Cheers

John
Received on Tue Oct 08 2002 - 17:48:00 BST