Adrian Graham wrote:
Folks,
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Yes, I'm a hoarder.
I guess that I qualify as well, but my focus was on PDP-11 Qbus hardware.
At my end, Dan Cohoe has helped me by taking away 7 of my 8
RL02 racks, the RL01 / RL02 drives and 2 * 9 track tape drives.
In addition, there were 2 LA120 printers and a lot of manuals for
RT-11. So most of the big stuff is gone. Now I have to sort
through around 500 Qbus boards and up to a dozen BA23 / BA123
boxes. I may be able to put together around 6 working RT-11
systems for hobby users. I also have a number of Hatichi 600 MB
ESDI drives to use with these systems along with ESDI controllers.
There are also RQDX3 controllers to run RX50 floppy drives. And
for even larger off line storage, a few TK50 / TK70 tape drives.
Is anyone interested in having a PDP-11 Qbus system? It will likely
take a year or even two before they could be put together and tested.
But if a few of you put in your interest, then I will keep you in mind.
For myself, I still run RT-11, but I an a software addict. So I run
under an emulator on the PC. I find that the software executes just
the same, just that it runs 100 times as fast as a PDP-11/93 on a
core 2 duo system (E8200). There does not seem to be any interest
in RT-11. BUT maybe I am wrong. Please respond if anyone would
like to help with putting together a set RT-11 distributions. Also, I
am still working on fixing bugs and coding enhancements for RT-11,
but it is less of a goal when no one else seems to be interested.
Jerome Fine