Wired covers VCF east

I haven't taken pictures of it yet... I'd like to try to get RT on it. The caption with the picture is a little incorrect... RT-11 is not a BASIC-like program... and I suspect it didn't make it as a product because of a couple of things... need for AC power, limited display (4 lines x 40 chars), a single diskette... As for the diskette being proprietary, I talked with someone at VCF-east and they said that they though that *really* early 3.5" diskettes were different from what we are used to now... he thought he might have a drive and some media... (if you are reading this, whoever, please contact me). If I can get an old drive to attach to a regular -11, I could try to load up RT on it and then try to boot the machine. As for the machine, it has a 4x40 LCD display, 3.5" diskette, 2 serial lines, some sort of port on the back for something (maybe another diskette?) and has a T-11 chip. The 'terminal' part of it looks sorta like a VT100 (with a SETUP A like screen) and it has rom code at 173000... uODT recognizes the B command as boot from the floppy. The machine is proto #6... I've not seen any others in all the years since... Megan Gentry Former RT-11 Developer +--------------------------------+-------------------------------------+ | Megan Gentry, EMT/B, PP-ASEL | Internet (work): gentry!zk3.dec.com | | Unix Support Engineering Group | (home): mbg!world.std.com | | Compaq Computer Corporation | addresses need '@' in place of '!' | | 110 Spitbrook Rd. ZK03-2/T43 | URL: http://world.std.com/~mbg/ | | Nashua, NH 03062 | "pdp-11 programmer - some assembler | | (603) 884 1055 | required." - mbg KB1FCA | +--------------------------------+-------------------------------------+