Building a PDP-11 for the first time

From: Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
Date: Sat Dec 13 17:50:45 2003

On Dec 12, 10:32, emanuel stiebler wrote:
> Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> > From what I understand, the 11/73 and 11/83 are both J-11 cpus, the
only
> > difference being that the /73 runs at 15MHz and the /83 runs at
18MHz.
>
> the 11/73 is a double, the 11/83 is a quad size board, 11/83 has also
> PMI, and was at the beginning a 15 MHz.

No, not true. There are both dual and quad 11/73 (the quad being an
11/73-plus). The 11/73 was 15MHz, the 11/83 was always sold as 18MHz.

> OH, and the 11/83 has a very nice verbose Boot-PROM ;-)

So does the 11/73, though it's different.

Source: personal experience of field servicing all of the above types,
plus the Micro-PDP-11 Maintenance manual.

-- 
Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York
Received on Sat Dec 13 2003 - 17:50:45 GMT

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