>>>> "Zane" == Zane H Healy
<healyzh(a)aracnet.com> writes:
> >>>>> "Ron" == Ron Hudson
<ron.hudson(a)sbcglobal.net> writes:
>
Ron> Were there any PDP11's as small as the DECmate III?
> PDT 110?
>
> paul
Zane> How big is a PDT-11/110? My PDT-11/150 is quite a bit larger
Zane> than a DECmate III.
Zane> To the best of my knowledge the smallest possible PDP-11 made
Zane> out of real hardware would be a 4-slot dual-height backplane,
Zane> with a dual-height CPU (ideally a PDP-11/73), DLV-11J
Zane> (providing console port), 3rd party disk controller w/bootstrap
Zane> (preferably SCSI). That would leave room for one additional
Zane> dual-height board. You'd have to figure out the power-supply
Zane> and how to wire up any disk or tape drives. I'd build
Zane> something like this, if I had the backplane, but I don't.
For standard modules, that sounds right.
It would be interesting to check the size of the LA120 electronics
module. That has a PDP11 (T-11) on it, I believe.
paul