I have one working (or at least it was about 3 years
ago when it was last
in active use) SMS-1000 backplane (and power supply) with built in
hard disk drive (I can't remember the size - about 10 to 30 Megs). If
I think both of mine are 20Mb HD's, I seem to remember one of them is dead.
My box has a single 8" floppy which is DSDD in
capacity for a total of
The one that is operational has the 5.25" floppy, the one with the dead HD,
that I stole the /73 board from has a 8" floppy. Both came with 256KW of
RAM.
Eventually, I suspect I will bring the system back to
life and
play some more. It is almost identical in size to a BA23, but
a little lighter and much easier access. If I add an ESDI
controller, I can have 600 MBytes and still have 3 quad
I think you'll find that the system gives you trouble booting off of ESDI.
As soon as I finish my tax returns and clean up a few
other
things, I want to make Y2K patches available for hobby
use for V5.3 of RT-11. Is anyone interested? If you read
this far into this e-mail, then you must be a PDP-11 user
(addict like I am). I know a few of you like RT-11 as well,
but I don't know how serious you feel about Y2K patches?
Please respond (either on list or off - V5.3 was released in
1985 and qualifies under the 10 year rule).
I'm sure some of us will be, sometime around the 2nd of January :^)
Zane
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