30 Dec
2008
30 Dec
'08
8:29 p.m.
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 2:09 PM, Tony Duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
A real Unibus PDP11, built from TTL and with a
lights-n-switches front
panel is a lot more fun :-)
Yep... I still gotta restore a chopped-up 11/20 I rescued, one of
these days. It needs a lot of work, but I think I have +95% of the
parts.
One unexpected (at least to me) place where the T11
turns up is in the
VT240 terminal. I thought those were relatively easy to find and not much
desired. I know nobofy bid against me when I bought one on E-bay a year or
so back.
I've had a VT240 for a while - I liked my VT220 more (lighter,
smaller, and I didn't _need_ the graphics, but they were fun to play
with), but I couldn't argue with the price: I worked for a guy doing
DEC stuff at the time, and he gave me two and said if I got them both
working, I could keep one... a couple of EIA line receivers and power
switches later, I was all set.
-ethan