What do to with an Internet-connected PDP-11?

[Aaron Jackson]

There is a TCP/IP stack available for RT-11, although I've never tried
it. It apparently works with both DEQNA and DELQA cards, and I suspect
you've got one or the other in your 11/23.

http://shop-pdp.net/rthtml/tcpip.php

It is possible, but also very painful, to view websites using the telnet
client "GET / HTTP/1.1" followed by two returns should give you a page.

I think it's more fun to do the opposite. My PDP-11/73 (in a 11/23+
chassis) is accessible via the web, when it's powered up.

http://catbert.rhwyd.co.uk

https://web.archive.org/web/20190420150036/http://catbert.rhwyd.co.uk/

So there's plenty of room to have fun :)

Aaron


Richard Cini via cctalk writes:

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>  Over the last few months, I’ve built myself a nice little PDP-11/23 with a SCSI interface/drive, extra SLUs and Ethernet. With the help of a few people, I was able to get an Ethernet configuration running, which is kind of cool. It’s been a great learning process getting this up and running. It’s a Q18 system, so memory is limited and I don’t think able to run BSD (I’m running RT-11 right now).
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> So, for playing around, what can I practically do with this? Is it even possible to access any Web sites (unconventional browsing for sure; I’ve read about telnetting to port 80)? I’m sure email is possible, as is FTP/Telnet (I’ve used that inside my lab setup), but I don’t really know where to start with that.
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>  If anyone has any pointers/suggestions, I’d appreciate it.
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>  Thanks!
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> Rich


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