30 Nov
2007
30 Nov
'07
4:18 p.m.
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 05:10:05PM -0600, Jay West wrote:
Me too..
Richard wrote...
>>Looks like noone else wanted to pay that much either. I don't know
>>where they came up with a price like $1700 for 4 11/04s ($425 ea?),
It's more than _I_ would want to pay for a bare 11/04 in unknown
condition.
> To which Pat replied...
> >An 11/04 is somewhat more desirable of a machine than the 11/03 is (it's
> >UNIBUS instead of QBUS), but you still lack the MMU, and only have a
> >calculator-keypad frontpanel instead of a full lights and toggles
IIRC the keypad frontpanel is an option (the 'Programmer's Panel'), as I
believe it is on the 11/34. Every 11/34 I've seen has had the keypad,
every 11/04 hasn't, but that's hardly a representative sample.
>frontpane,
and it's relatively slow. So, it's not generally all that
>desirable to people, compared to something like an 11/83, or even an
>11/10, or 11/34.
It's a fine RT-11 box, but so is an 11/23 (which is much more common
and about the same physical size). If you had some Unibus peripherals you wanted to play with, you could drop a couple in
there, but ISTR
there's a small number of empty slots after you install the CPU, memory,
and a console.
I'm not saying it's an terrible machine - I have one myself. There are
I nearly got one, but eneded up taking na 11/34 instead. I don't really
regret that choice.
The 111/04 and 11/34 are pretty similar. Same backplane, mounting box
(There are 2, 5,.25" and 10.5", but either can be used for either machine),
memory, PSU (for a particular box), front panel etc. The 11/04 is a
simgle hex-height board for the CPU, the 11/34 is 2 boards.
_Somewhere_ O have an 11/04/34 user manual were references to the 11/09
and 11/39 have clearly been whited out before the manual was
duplicated... In fact I think one of the line drawings has '11/39' on it.
-tony