14 Sep
2011
14 Sep
'11
5:22 p.m.
On 9/14/11 4:06 PM, Paul Anderson wrote:
I used to work on quite a few VR14's and
VR17's, but never stop to
think about the GT40=VR14, GT44=VR17 connection. I'm somewhat sure my
VR12 came out of a PDP12. Some VT11's were add ons, with possiblly
either size monitor.
I've never seen a GT46, but might have seen a VT11 on a 11/34.
DEC-11-HGT44-A_GT44_Users_Guide_Dec73 shows the machine as being in two
short cabinets with a VR-17. I know I have the brochure for the GT-46
somewhere. It was a 6' cabinet with two RK-05's. We had one at UW-Milwaukee
with an AR-11 and DEC joystick and keypad boxes.
We had Unix V6 running on it for a while with VT-11 support. It was a bit
of a kludge, since the VT-11 only has 16 bits of address support.
A VR-17 would be a bit big to put on top of the GT40, which really is designed
to have the VR-14 sitting on top.