26 Apr
2020
26 Apr
'20
4:36 p.m.
They were interesting little devices. Apparently someone ported
Multiplan or Visicalc to one but Dec shot the project down. They were
essentially a turnkey personal computer in the late 1970's but DEC was
afraid they would cut into the sales of their minicomputers.
So it was sold as a branch office terminal connector. You could boot
RT11 and poll 4 terminals and a printer, sending the data over a sync
serial modem port to the home office. Sad.
Fortunately Dec wouldn't make the same mistake with the Professional
systems. Oh wait, they did, no wonder they went out of business....
C
On 4/26/2020 6:31 PM, John Foust via cctalk wrote:
At 03:33 PM 4/26/2020, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote:
So I've had a boat anchor pdt11/150 here for
awhile. It's probably one of the weirdest pdp11s ever built: An 11/03 CPU ish, six
serial ports, ish, and a pair of RX01 drives.
I remember using one for a while in the early 80s. I kind of liked it.
I think the local DEC rep gave it to us for a song for some reason.
- John