15 May
2012
15 May
'12
1:38 p.m.
At 6:35 PM +0000 5/15/12, Benjamin Huntsman wrote:
That's what I'd been told! What's
"outrageous"? Several hundred?
Several thousand? Have you seen any sell
lately?
I'm definitely up for some assembly from parts, so I'd be good with
acquiring a BA23 pedestal and upgrading the CPU
board later if I could find one. Problem is that sort of thing
rarely shows up on eBay, which is why I've been asking
around on a few forums...
Do more than a few hobbyists have 11/93's or 11/73's, or are those
fairly uncommon machines?
The 11/73 is the one that's got the 15MHz CPU and accesses memory
across the QBus, right?
Save the money you'd spend on the /93 board & RAM, and get a SCSI
Adapter (ideally one that will support a compatible CD-ROM drive in
addition to hard drives and maybe even tape drives). You might also
want to consider a BA123 rather than the BA23. Though if space is at
a premium, you'll definitely want the BA23.
Think about a nice DEC terminal (I like VT420's, others have their
favorites). Also an LA75 is a nice small printer that uses the same
ribbons as the Applewriter.
Having a SCSI based VMS box can be useful in getting the PDP-11 media built.
BTW, I'm still on a /73, but prices had dropped on /83 CPU's and RAM
enough the last time I looked that I've seriously considered one.
Also, have you looked at emulation? Both E11 and SIMH provide
excellent emulation support. There are a bunch of others listed at
my page on PDP-11 emulation, though it's horribly out of date.
http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/pdp11emu.html
Zane
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