25 Mar
2009
25 Mar
'09
8:06 p.m.
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, John Floren wrote:
I just brought home my spiffy new MicroPDP-11, hooked
it up to my
laptop (couldn't find cables to go to any real terminals) and tried
booting. Right now, all I see at power-on is:
173000
@
I can type things after the @, but it seems that pretty much any
keypress results in a '?' and a new prompt.
I'm a total PDP-11 newb, but the users manual implied that I should be
seeing some sort of post-ish procedure similar to what you get on a
VAX. Any ideas?
What boards are in the system? Is the CPU dual or quad height? What board
is the terminal hooked to? IIRC, this indicates you're lacking a bootstrap.
If we know what boards, and drives you have we can probably better advise
you.
Zane