3 Nov
2010
3 Nov
'10
9:23 a.m.
On 11/3/10 12:14 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
I've seen that sort of frame a couple of times; they were used in
(possibly among other things) embedded applications. It's been a long
time but I think I saw them in big GenRad board testers.
I don't
want to hijack this thread except to say that I too just got an
11/34 last week. I still need to clean it and learn more about what it
was set to do, but I have a quick question about the front panel. My
system has a flat front panel without the white cover cut out resembling
a mirror image of the US State of Delaware on it's side. My system has
a black front panel with a white rectangular frame around it instead.
What is the origin of this variation?
I have never seen that mounting frame for the front panel, but perhaps
it's related to your "DEC DataSystem" cover panel. Here's a photo I found googling around for
"DEC Datasystem"
http://www.compuseum.at/portal/Computers/PDP1134/tabid/93/language/en-US/De…
Hey, that looks just like the rack my 11/70 is in.
An 11/34 w/RL01 is a nice little RT-11 system, though
it'd be a bit
cramped for 2.9BSD (both in terms of disk and RAM). You could
probably also run an older version of RSX-11/M on it too. I think we
ran something around RSX-11/M 4.0 or 4.1 on ours in the mid-1980s.
4.0 and 4.1 run very well on an 11/34, I ran 4.0 briefly then 4.1 for
a long time on mine in the mid-1980s. After that I ran RSTS/E v9.4,
which also ran great on that system.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL