12 Dec
2003
12 Dec
'03
9:04 a.m.
On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 02:05:11PM -0500, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
I managed to finally open up and look at the
Westinghouse/Unimation
roboto controller that's been sitting out at Purdue Salvage for the
last few weeks, next to a robotic arm that probably weighs >1000lbs and
has been stripped of some of its parts.
To my suprise, I saw a bunch of what looked like QBUS boards in it...
pulled one out and said 'this looks like an 11/23 CPU board. cool!'
After getting it home, and seeing exactly what board it was, I
discovered it was an M8192-YB... an LSI-11/73 CPU. Along with that was
a 64kW SRAM board, a pair of DLV11-J 'clone' boards, and some robot
controller hardware...
Nice. Throw a disk controller on that (and some more RAM), and you'll
have a good start on a 2.11BSD box (or RT-11, or RSTS...) With 64kW,
I think you find that RT-11 is your best bet (but you'll still want
a disk card, unless you want to fiddle with a TU-58 emulator hung off
of your DLV11-J clone).
-ethan
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