25 Mar
2009
25 Mar
'09
8:11 p.m.
Quoting "John Floren" <slawmaster at gmail.com>:
I just brought home my spiffy new MicroPDP-11, hooked
it up to my
laptop (couldn't find cables to go to any real terminals) and tried
booting. Right now, all I see at power-on is:
173000
@
I can type things after the @, but it seems that pretty much any
keypress results in a '?' and a new prompt.
I'm a total PDP-11 newb, but the users manual implied that I should be
seeing some sort of post-ish procedure similar to what you get on a
VAX. Any ideas?
It depends on a few factors.? Not all Micro 11 CPU modules have boot ROMs on board, and if
they do not, all you'll get is the ODT ("@") prompt.??What CPU module is?
installed in this machine?
But you'll also get the ODT prompt?if you power up the machine with the Halt switch
on, so you may want to check that...
Josh
John
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