27 Jan
2012
27 Jan
'12
5:51 a.m.
Hi all,
I was quite busy this week - so I had not much time to play with
hardware....
.) no, I did not disassemble the whole RX50. Only a good cleaning was
necessary and that sort of stuff....
.) what I did was checking the backplane against the manualy I found and it
seems to be fully functional; the frontpanel (okay, it's only 3 switches
and 3 lights) too.
.) the PSU is still object for work.
@Rob: I did hear about BOS but never have seen any material survived. If
you ever find your disks, please think of me.
--
Wolfgang Eichberger - OE5EWL
Operating System Collector
Blog: 5ewl.blogspot.com
Homepage: www.eichberger.org
2012/1/26 Rob <robert at irrelevant.com>
On 24 January 2012 21:54, Wolfgang Eichberger
<oe5ewl at gmail.com> wrote:
PS: Some of you may know that I am collecting PDP-11 Operating Systems.
Do you have a copy of "BOS" ? I used to work for one of their
resellers; We still had one customer running it on an 11/23 clone,
supporting over a dozen serial terminals and several printers, as late
as 2001. (BOS was an expensive cross-platform OS designed to run
accounts software.. they are still going, but has morphed into an
application under windows now...)
There's a fairly small chance I might still have a set of discs, but
it's likely the box is at the bottom of the heap that's in a storage
unit..