Building a PDP-11 for the first time

From: Fred N. van Kempen <waltje_at_pdp11.nl>
Date: Wed Dec 10 19:02:49 2003

On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, John Allain wrote:

> > M8190-AB (11/84 cpu)
>
> I separated the '84 CPU because it's oops Unibus and not
> Qbus. Everything else you have listed is Qbus. The busses
> don't mix.
An 11/84 is an 11/83 CPU board with Qniverter extender for
Unibus, so he can just use the /83 board in his box to make
a nice 11/83 system. Right?

> You're in about the same shape as I am. I have all the boards
> except the memory board, and even though I have a Qbus
> system complete with memory (microVAX II) here too, it's not
> compatible with a PDP11 CPU.
Nope, that uses the memory interconnect stuff. For the /83,
you can use either standard (slowish) Qbus memory boards, or
the faster PMI-based boards.. not impossible to get, but not
easy either.

Fred
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