9 Jun
2005
9 Jun
'05
3:47 p.m.
Those days
fooling with the hardware were fun, but now
that there are emulators that can run about 100 times
the speed of a PDP-11/73, for an RT-11 software addict
like myself, the hardware has become much less important.
Doesn't work for me. Sims are useful but the fastest PC I have
is a 1g celeron. They aren't that fast and often a lot less reliable as the OS supporting them can be cranky.
I still have two xerox paper boxes full of Qbus cards, hardware
is easy.
Ditto, but Unibus, if you see what I mean. I got a load of Unibus comms
stuff in a clearout (DMC11s, DMR11s, KMC11), a DB11 repeater, DW11-B Qbus
translator, most of the common-ish serial cards and disk controllers, and
so on.
-tony