16 Mar
2005
16 Mar
'05
11:05 a.m.
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 13:37:29 -0500, David Betz <dbetz at xlisper.mv.com> wrote:
Thanks everyone for your advise on using the RQDX3
with an 11/23!
You're welcome.
It looks like I'm in the market for the RQDX3
itself and a BA23 along
with whatever cables are required to connect everything. I think I can
probably come up with an appropriate MFM drive on my own.
It's certainly the easier route as long as you can find a BA23 for cheap/free.
Anyone have any of this equipment they'd like to
sell?
I do not, but once upon a time, one of the cheapest sources was
MicroVAX-Is... just pull out the CPU and set it aside. One bonus is
that uVAX-I memory is Qbus memory and works great with PDP-11 CPUs
(unlike uVAX-II memory, which is PMI). Another bonus is that if one
_wants_ to play with Ultrix-32 v1 or MicroVMS, you still have all the
parts.
You can literally pull the CPU and/or memory from a MicroVAX I/II and
drop in a KDF11 or KDJ11 and required memory, and *bam* - a
MicroPDP...
-ethan