19 May
2017
19 May
'17
3:44 p.m.
As for power, if you have a wife and/or kids, a PDP-11's power
consumption is not even above the noise floor in your
electric bill.
(Unless your trying to do it with RA disks!!)
bill
Out of curiosity how much power do these wee beasties consume?
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The plate on the back of my 11/93 says 345 Watts. That's about a fifth what your
wifes hair dryer draws. Or slightly more than 3 100 watt light bulbs (which your
kids leave on all over the house all the time!!)
bill
I run a similar PDP-11/83 system 24/7 on a BA23 in a Pedestal stand. It has two 2MB memory
boards, an Emulex UC07 connected to two SCSI2SD Cards emulating two RD54s and two RA92s,
and a DELQA-T running RSX11M+, DECnet and Johnny Billquist;s TCP/IP and it draws 100-105
watts on my UPS.
I also run a Simh PDP-11 on a Raspberry Pi 3 as an adjacent node and it is much faster,
much quieter, but not quite as much fun.
Mark Matlock