PDP-11/24 Available in Virginia

--- Christopher McNabb <cmcnabb(a)4mcnabb.net> wrote: . . . Nice little system. I already have two 11/24s (one with 2MB, one with 3MB!) and it's a little far to go for a duplicate, but someone ought to find it to be worthwhile drive. After spending about $300 (incl S&H) on the CPU, another couple hundred on a KT24 and some extra memory, and, ISTR, $75 on an RL11) when I was in college (c. 1987), I had mine beefed up enough to load 2.9BSD. I wouldn't feel like I spent too much, except that it didn't see much use after that, unfortunately, so on a per-hour basis, it was kinda expensive. My disks were 3 x RL02, so I didn't really have enough disk space to have fun with it. The other one was free from work a few years later. It had been a RSTS machine for nearly all of its life, first as an accounting box, then later a product dev box when we ported the COMBOARD software to 8.something then 9.3. Yours would be great for either RSTS or RT-11. 1MB is a little tight for 2BSD, but it should install, boot and be able to at least run adventure in that much space. I wouldn't recommend it for multi-user, though. -ethan