PDP 11/73 SLU

From: Brian Hechinger <wonko_at_4amlunch.net>
Date: Tue Oct 7 20:48:28 2003

On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 08:24:08PM -0400, Christopher McNabb wrote:
>
> It is really pretty useless for me, since the EGA monitors all appear to
> be toast and I wouldn't be able to use VTServer through the custom EGA
> thing.

pull the EGA thingie, and you might be able to cram enough "regular" PDP-11
bits into it to get it bootstraping correctly and most importantly trying to
use a serial port for console.

the /73 is a fabulous machine, don't give up on it too quickly. :)

> Interestingly, though, is the fact that this custom card also interfaces
> into a very large board that I believe is a vector processor.

ooooohhhh, i would be VERY interested to know what that is and if there were
a way that we could play with it. :)

-brian
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