10 Dec
2012
10 Dec
'12
8:19 a.m.
On 12/10/12 12:44 AM, John Wilson wrote:
- Terak 8510/a. This is a desktop machine with a
standard LSI-11 CPU card
and non-standard everything else. The highlight is the 320x240 graphics
display. Runs RT-11/85 and UCSD p-System. Works in the DOS, Win32, OS/2,
and stand-alone versions of E11, but not Linux (due to linker problems).
Probably has plenty of rough edges since I've never even seen a Terak
machine in real life. For one thing it only works with QX:-bootable disks
(no QB: FDC emulation yet).
I'll be working with John Foust to get a few more QB disks read. QX and QB are
Western Digital 17xx floppy controllers (not DEC compatible).
A monochrome frame buffer board and a parallel keyboard would be handy if someone
has a spare. I have a couple of machines but no keyboards, and they all have
color frame buffer cards.
Last summer, I got as far as booting a QB: P-System disk but wasn't
able to get a QB: RT-11 working.
Also, FWIW, 11/03's and 11/23's both worked with the P-System, but an 11/73 did
not.
This also reminds me that I don't think I uploaded these to /bits/Terak on bitsavers.