FA-PDT-11/150 on eBay

From: Jerome H. Fine <jhfinexgs2_at_compsys.to>
Date: Sun Jun 1 20:15:00 2003

>"Zane H. Healy" wrote:

> >I noticed this on eBay and thought I'd post it here for those PDP-11
> >collectors among us:
> >http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2733136922&category=1247
> >The starting price ($199 US) seems high, but these are pretty hard to find.
> >One possibly sour note though - the seller wants a flat rate of $150 to ship
> >anywhere in North America.
> Interesting. It's in identical shape to the one that I've got. I've been wondering how much one would sell for if it was fixed up a little. However, I think the outrageous shipping charge and unknown condition will prevent him from getting what he could for it.

Jerome Fine replies:

When Megan Gentry mentioned that the PDT-11/150
is able to do a LLF (Low Level Format) on the 8" floppy
media, I asked about the possibility of a hard disk drive.

Does the PDT-11/150 use the DX.SYS device driver
to run the RX01 floppy media?

I know there is a device driver called PD.SYS, but I am
not sure what it supports.

Also, from what I understand, the PDT-11/150 can run
RT-11, but not RT11XM, only RT11SJ and RT11FB.
And the maximum memory is probably 64 KBytes with
the IOPAGE taking either 8 KBytes (or 4 KBytes?).

Sincerely yours,

Jerome Fine
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