3 Nov
2010
3 Nov
'10
9:14 a.m.
On 11/3/10, B Degnan <billdeg at degnanco.com> wrote:
I don't want to hijack this thread except to say
that I too just got an
11/34 last week. I still need to clean it and learn more about what it
was set to do, but I have a quick question about the front panel. My
system has a flat front panel without the white cover cut out resembling
a mirror image of the US State of Delaware on it's side. My system has
a black front panel with a white rectangular frame around it instead.
What is the origin of this variation?
I have never seen that mounting frame for the front panel, but perhaps
it's related to your "DEC DataSystem" cover panel.
Here's a photo I found googling around for "DEC Datasystem"
http://www.compuseum.at/portal/Computers/PDP1134/tabid/93/language/en-US/De…
Here are pictures from the system as I first got it,
if it helps with
the card order/comparison purposes. Note that some cards are not
installed in the backplane.
http://vintagecomputer.net/digital/pdp11-34a/before/
Do you have packs for your RL01 drives? Hopefully the packs were
removed and the heads locked for transport.
An 11/34 w/RL01 is a nice little RT-11 system, though it'd be a bit
cramped for 2.9BSD (both in terms of disk and RAM). You could
probably also run an older version of RSX-11/M on it too. I think we
ran something around RSX-11/M 4.0 or 4.1 on ours in the mid-1980s.
-ethan