9 Apr
2012
9 Apr
'12
noon
On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Henk Gooijen <henk.gooijen at hotmail.com> wrote:
I do not have any pictures, but I should be shuffling storage this
summer and I will be taking *lots* of pictures then.
I got it as a discard from a company I later went to work for. They
in turn got it from a university surplus auction. Neither they nor I
have tried to power it up. I'm sure it needs a lot of cleaning and
testing. I have experience with cleaning DEC backplanes (manila
folders and isopropanol) and testing M-series modules. I do happen to
have a set of the reproduction KM11s
(http://www.shiresoft.com/products/km11/KM11%20Replica.html) that I'm
sure will come in handy.
Once I do have the time and space to restore it, I was planning on
attaching it to my PDP-11/20 once I restore _it_. That one, as I've
mentioned in the past, was literally pulled from a dumpster after it
was parted out and gutted. I do not think I have 100% of the parts,
but I do have three cabinets (CPU + two memory boxes), the DD11
backplanes, and a large box of loose modules. That will be more of a
challenge to get running again. No less than two of the core modules
were souvenired before I got my hands on the remainder, so I'll be
lucky to get 16K working.
?I did get the
RK11-C and an RK05J. ?I haven't tried to restore the
RK11-C but I've used the RK05J with an RKV11D.
I only *remember* several years ago one RK11-C on eBay.
Always regretted not having made a shot at getting it.
I would love to get an RK11-C, working or not working, and trade for a
working RK11-D. Ethan, do you have any on-line pictures of the RK11-C? Yeah, me too :-)
And I like the typical smell of a just powered-up RK05.
I recognize that smell well.
-ethan