FA-PDT-11/150 on eBay

From: Megan <mbg_at_TheWorld.com>
Date: Tue Jun 3 08:49:35 2003

>The PDT-11/150 was reportedly available with one or two RX01
>drives, and three serial ports with another three optional. I've
>only seen the one I own, which has both drives and six ports.
>There're no other expansion options that I can recall.

I've never seen one with only one drive, but I have seen some
which didn't have the extra 3-line option.

>In fact it's sitting in the dining room with a VT100 waiting to
>be powered up to check some 8" floppies I received a while back.
>I'm in the process of bringing up a VAX 4000/500 I recently
>received and it'd be a hoot to connect the PDT to it.

Remember, after powering it on, you type two '_at_' to autobaud and
boot the unit.

>Did RT-11 ever include DECnet support? Probably so, but as of
>what version? I don't recall seeing mention of it with whatever
>version came with the PDT, and I'd be amazed if the PDT could
>support it...

RT never came with DECnet support... DECnet was, however, available
for it as a 'layered product'. The DECnet available for RT was
Phase III, asynch/sync support only. No Phase IV/Ethernet. I know
of someone who actually had a PDT running RT on the DEC internal
network at one point...

                                        Megan
Received on Tue Jun 03 2003 - 08:49:35 BST