11/73->RL02 Final

Well. Over forty messages spawned from this topic. I am very most certainly grateful to each of you who has taken your time and expertise to add knowledge to the subject. I am not going to pursue the 11/73 any longer, because it is hardly a DEC machine, anyway (physically at any rate) and because I think that I would be better served by putting the resources into my 11/44. I have two 11/23s which *are* true-DEC, and perhaps these can be made to hold aloft the LSI banner in my collection. I definately want the 11/73 for the data on it's HD, tho. This leaves the 11/43a system and the uVAX II to be made to speak RL02, and then there's some form of networking between them, and also to a contemplated 486 or 586 platform dedicated to one of the PDP11 emulators. To this machine I can then install my SCSI 9trk drive, and do real handy things like CDROM and Media Conversion. I know the PR1ME 2550 has an ethernet port on it, and a SCSI port, and it has a Kennedy 9100 native to it... Sigh. I have an appointment with a friend of mine who is an electrician, to get an estimate on re-working my pitiful sixties-era house wiring. If I squeeze every drop out of the taxes this year, it might just pay for the sub-panel and the conduit run to the Machines. Yup. I got it *bad*... Thanks again everyone. I am going to take stock of my DEC module situation and then put some things up for trade... I'm angling for an RL02 on the uVAX... hint hint hint. Ah, damn.. forgot about the MINCs.... Cheerz John