At 06:03 PM 9/19/2004, you wrote:
How big is a PDT-11/110? My PDT-11/150 is quite a bit
larger than a
DECmate III.
To the best of my knowledge the smallest possible PDP-11 made out of real
hardware would be a 4-slot dual-height backplane, with a dual-height CPU
(ideally a PDP-11/73), DLV-11J (providing console port), 3rd party disk
controller w/bootstrap (preferably SCSI). That would leave room for one
additional dual-height board. You'd have to figure out the power-supply
and how to wire up any disk or tape drives. I'd build something like
this, if I had the backplane, but I don't.
The smallest DEC PDP-11 that I'm aware of is the PDP-11/03, but you've got
to add a external drive of some sort.
For people where a system the size of a BA23 is an issue, your best bet is
going to be to simply run under emulation. In my case it isn't the size
of the systems so much that is an issue, it's how much space all the
documentation I have takes up!
What about the VT103, a VT100 with bigger power supply and 4 slot QBus
backplane.
Ed K.