Why not install the 256 mb of RAM from your 11/34 in there?
Jay West wrote:
>I couldn't wait, had to get the 11/45 off the trailer and dig around in it.
>Upon first close inspection, the thing is FILTHY. It will take some very
>major cleaning before attempting to do anything with it. However, from a
>first looksee - it definitely doesn't look "beyond all recall", it looks
>like it will clean up nicely. While very dirty, I can't see any rust
>anywhere. Good sign.
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>Some pictures are at http://www.ezwind.net/jwest/1145
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>Questions...
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>There is a separate power supply at the back top of the rack, which powers a
>DEC brand backplane mounted "pins forward" in the front. There's also some
>lights & switches here. There's some flipchips in it, and lots of what look
>to be D/A cards. Does anyone have any clue what this was used for? I took
>extra pictures of this part - tried different focus settings & all so
>hopefully some will be clear.
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>Looks like the machine has no FP option, and 8K of core memory. I haven't
>decided what OS I want to run on this thing yet, maybe RT11, or RSTS, but I
>was really hoping to run 2.9BSD or Unix 7 or some flavor of unix. That's not
>gonna happen with 8K of core. I have some RL02's I could put on it. Anyone
>want to trade the bits to make it use semiconductor memory in exchange for
>the core backplane and core boards? Is FP required for anything I've
>mentioned? I'll get it up and running on 8K to test & refurb, but definitely
>want to go the semiconductor memory route so I can run one of the above
>O/S's. Hey, can this thing use any of the memory boards I have in my 11/44?
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>Thanks for any advice!
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>Jay West
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Received on Mon Dec 29 2003 - 09:43:54 GMT