pdp11/34 restoration : question & items sought

From: Guy Sotomayor <ggs_at_shiresoft.com>
Date: Thu Jan 1 18:44:28 2004

On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 05:21, Jos Dreesen wrote:
> My recently acquired 11/34 has a few missing parts :
> the boot proms of the M9301 and the M7850 parity board.
>
> It does have 16K mos memory and the full programmer panel.
>
> However, when I fire it up, I cannot halt the processor, the RUN light
> stays on.

I had this problem on my 11/34a and it turned out to be the console
board. Putting in a new one fixed it and I could do things (ie enter,
examine and run programs).

But before you do that, you do know how the programmer panel operates?
(ie you have to press control and halt to get it to halt).

>
> Could this be due to the missing parts ?
>
> And of course, to complement the system, I am looking for the following
> parts :
>
> - the missing items of course
> - an unibus RL11 controller. Are these rare ?
> - Some more memory.
>
>
> Jos Dreesen , Zurich Switzerland
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TTFN - Guy
Received on Thu Jan 01 2004 - 18:44:28 GMT

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