4 Jun
2009
4 Jun
'09
1:52 p.m.
why would you ruin a perfectly good PDP with something as awful as BSD?
what's the point?
is there any advantage to ruining such wonderful hardware rather than running
BSD say on an old 286 or something?
it completely loses it's uniqueness, no special software, never seeing those wonderful
command lines
unique look and feel, everything that makes the machine special.
might as well run a vanilla BSD box, no one would know the difference.
except some of the commands that show what it's running on, but big whoop there.
so is there something special you can do that shows it's uniqueness?
Dan.
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 21:31:29 -0700
From: derschjo at mail.msu.edu
To:
Subject: PDP 11/73 on the Internet
Hey All --
So, instead of debugging my 11/40 last night I decided to get my 11/73
running again since all it needed was to be put back together :).
Installed 2.11BSD on it from TK50 tape, and it was only slightly faster
than the last time I installed it -- at 19.2kbps using vtserver :).
At any rate, it's online, so to speak, so if you feel like playing
around, just telnet to yahozna.dyndns.org. (login: guest, password
Guest1!) Be kind, it's not the speediest thing out there. I figure it's
rather unlikely it'll be hacked into, and if it is, worst case I can
restore the drive from the image I made of it...
Is there a repository of source/binaries for stuff people have (back)
ported to 2.11BSD? I'm thinking of seeing if I can squeeze an older
version of Apache on it if I ever find the time...
- Josh
(Specs, just in case anyone cares:
11/73 CPU,
2mb RAM,
TK50 tape,
DEQNA ethernet,
TS11 -> M4 9 track (currently non functional)
Emulex U07 SCSI -> SCSI->IDE bridge -> IBM Microdrive (4gb))
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