My PDP11/23 arrived...

Wolfgang Eichberger wrote:

First: Thanks to all who contributed to this thread. I learned a lot so far... Just a little report of work I've already done on the machine: The PSU is now on my workbench. It's not a completely write-off unit, I think repair is possible - further checkings are needed. Nearly all major Components were found in my parts-box - the rest is a matter of time and studying the schematics and lots of measuring. The boards and the backplane will be cleaned and inspected on next weekend but they look promising. One IC on the RL02 controller looks bad (bent pins, scratched top) but I should have a spare.... In today's lunch break I cleaned up the RX50 drive and completed some missing screws in the chassis and last but not least wired up a nice load for the psu (had some huge resistors in my lab).... Any further suggestions, ideas, hints etc are as usually greatly appreciated. Regards, Wolfgang PS: Some of you may know that I am collecting PDP-11 Operating Systems. A Fellow from Russia will send me some Tapes of a DSM-11 Clone. These Tapes are 9track and my Drive is a total writeoff. Maybe someone of you could assist me in reading this Tapes (as far as I found out there are 2 Tapes)? Also any hints for surviving 9track Drives are appreciated - I'd really like to give one unit a good, clean home (I am located in Austria; but beware: due to the health care of my son I am a bit low on funds and hobby budget is somewhat limited, but with a little time we can work out a solution) -- Wolfgang Eichberger - OE5EWL Operating System Collector Blog: 5ewl.blogspot.com Homepage: www.eichberger.org