I acquired a PDP 11/23 this weekend. It runs RT-11, which boots fine from either the RL01 or RX01s. Has anyone ever attempted to run RSTS/E on an 11/23? I was thinking about attempting to SYSGEN RSTS/E v7.0 on this machine, but in looking over some info on RSTS/E, it does not list the 11/23 as one of the systems that RSTS/E will run on.
Ashley
Well, amazingly, I'm still alive after my trip to the Dayton Hamvention... ;-)
Got down there Friday nite, so I didn't get any chance to peruse the
flea-market booths then (which is when I'm told most of the classic schtuff
is available...)
on Saturday, it rained like a ... Well, a lot. It didn't ease off until
about 1600hrs, when I finally figured I'd "venture out into the
wilderness", so most vendors were still wrapped up prolly figuring the
entire day was a lost cause & went to drown their sorrows. I did see a
Heathkit EPROM burner (4800? methinks) - guy wanted $50 but "might" take
$40. I told him I'd think about it, it was gone Sunday. (It did have the
personality modules up to a 27256.) Dunno if it was a good buy or not. That
was all I saw for classic gear (other than PeeCees that were 10+ years old,
I'm not counting that due to the boredom associated with said particular
platform. ;-) [1]
Sunday was nicer, overcast but warmer & no rain, so it was a good day to do
some exploring, and all I saw was a TI-44/9a with 1 cart for $20, an
unpriced Apple //e, and some unpriced assorted Suns. Altho I'm not "the
most worldly wize d00d on the planet" I do know that most of the time, if
it's unmarked, the price doubles when you ask. I generally don't waste my
time or theirs. ;-)
Nothing Tandy-ish, let alone Model 10x/200 which is what I was hoping
for... :-(
As a lead-in to another thread, tho, I did pick up a soldering station &
desoldering gun. For $100 I got a Hakko 939 soldering station w/1 tip (it's
fine for medium work, but for some fine circuitry I'd want a finer tip),
photocopied manual, and key (yes, you need a small "punch-card" key to
change the temperature & the configuration... each tip has a "temperature
coefficient" that you key into the station, to keep an exact temperature,
AFAICT)...
Anyone else have any experience with this brand/model of soldering station?
The cheapest I'd found on ePay (tho I didn't search completed auctions yet)
was $150, and it looks like they still make 'em for about $400, so I think
I did OK...
I also snagged a $65 Soder-Wick SC-5000 desoldering gun. My only concern is
that the guy told me the filters are no longer being produced for this
model (he had the SC-7000, but I didn't have the $475 required to purchase
the rascal). I've already googled around a bit for this model, and I got 1
website: His. The filter on it right now is "nearly new" and he stated that
it would take me a long time to wear that filter out, but I'm still
concerned about finding replacements. Anyone know or use this model?
Oh, and I did find an AUI transceiver for my Vaxstation so when I have the
room to set that up again... Externally powered (never seen one of those
before) w/wallwart, $3. Not too bad... ;-)
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
[1] and there were a *lot* of them. Anything from a '386 & up could be had
for anywhere from super-cheap to "what the hell are you smoking" prices.
Sad, really...
--
Roger "Merch" Merchberger | JC: "Like those people in Celeronville!"
sysadmin, Iceberg Computers | Me: "Don't you mean Silicon Valley???"
zmerch(a)30below.com | JC: "Yea, that's the place!"
| JC == Jeremy Christian
Hi all!
While attempting to get some organization back into one of my
study rooms (the one where all my DEC docs and media are), I
again ran into the problem of organizing my collection of the
wellknown "Handbook" series of DEC publications.
I have many, but after sorting them out, and taking out the
dupes (which *are* available for trade, by the way) I noticed
some volumes were clearly missing in series where they had
multiple-volume issues.
So, is there (from DEC, or collected by us) some sort of
"master list" of which handbooks were published by DEC?
This would help me a lot in finding the ones I am missing,
or think I am missing...
Thankee,
Fred
--
Fred N. van Kempen, DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation) Collector/Archivist
Visit the VAXlab Project at http://VAXlab.pdp11.nl/
Visit the Archives at http://www.pdp11.nl/
Email: waltje(a)pdp11.nl BUSSUM, THE NETHERLANDS / Mountain View, CA, USA
You could also check my list... I have a somewhat
large collection of dec handbooks. At one point while
working for DEC, I got myself on an automatic distribution
list to receive a copy of all new handbooks as they came
out... I was on it for a few years before they stopped
doing it.
Anyway, check out
http://world.std.com/~mbg/dec_handbooks.html
Megan Gentry
Former RT-11 Developer
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Surplus and pulls from a 'minicomputer repair shop'...
"Memory, logic, drivers, baud rate generators, and much more
includes 7400 series 2516's 2716's 4116's 2116's com 5016's
includes large bag of assorted chips from a minicomputer repair shop
)1980's)"
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4663&item=3816263323…
Items are in New York. If they were in Old York, the shippin'd kill ya.
This does not apply to Midlands blokes.
Cheeerz
John
The following turned up yesterday from a couple of skips:
Two Acorn 420/1 machines, one with an ST506 drive and the other with
an IDE drive and interface. One has an Ethernet board fitted. Both seem
to have some sort of CPU upgrade fitted to them.
An Acorn A5000, with a board called a "Colourcard" in it - I assume
it's some sort of video board with a better spec than the standard video
output?
I got keyboards and mice for all three machines, which was nice. Also
found two seperate Ethernet cards, a whole slew of RiscOS ROMs in a box,
Artworks software and a pile of Artworks dongles. Oh, and a collection
of the rear panel blanking plates (I'm actually missing those from some
of my Acorns, so they'll come in handy :-)
I also came away with Sun Sparc 4 (gutted though), a Sun Sparc 10
(memory and CPU board fitted, no hard disk), and a Sun Ultra 1 (also
gutted).
Couple of Mac LC III's were in the haul too, a couple of Apple Ethernet
boards, an Apple SCSI CDROM drive, plus misc. bits - a 760MB full-height
SCSI drive, several small-capacity IDE drives, couple of sticks of Sun
memory, couple of RS232 gender changers etc.
I passed on the huge Apple Quadra tower that was in the skip, and the
numerous PCs that were in there... :)
Not a bad haul for free though.
cheers
Jules
Found in the bin this weekend at Drayton Manor Radio Rally.
One EPROM board with 12 27C010 EPROMs and a label on the back
saying "VT1000 2.2".
One SIMM carrier board with three 64 pin SIMM slots, one
populated with a 1MB SIMM.
Are these any use to anyone? I can dump the EPROM contents
if needed.
I did make a note of the DEC part numbers but left it at
home (doh!).
Cheers,
Lee.
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