Portland Sale, got a PDP, etc.

<> > BTW, what is a DEC Professional 350? I passed on both that and a Rai <> > or two (they had a huge stack of Rainbows, but no monitors or keyboar <> > sight). I really want to go back, and would tomorrow I think, but th <> > weather is turning bad, and I'm supposed to be elsewhere :^( The PRO350 is a member of the PDP-11 family. The processor is the F-11, that's the same one as the 11/23 and they could carry up to 1meg of ram. The bus physically is unique to the pro but it is similar to q-bus in signals and timing. As to options: RX50 floppy RD50/51/52 hard disks(rd51 10meg was common) various memory options APUs for 8088 or z80s eithernet interface Color graphics Operating system was POS and was a modified version of RSX and is a multitasking os. RT-11 was also available. Many programming languages were available. Venix is available on the net for this box. Speed, the PRO350 was slightly faster than the 11/23 though the disk interfaces were slower. It did make a good workstation. Versions, There was a PRO380 which used the J-11 (11/73 11/83) processor which was faster and also the design carried more memory. Same box. I have one and they are neat small machines. You need a monitor and keyboard to make it complete. Allison