19 Oct
2015
19 Oct
'15
11:57 a.m.
I have a decserver 550 CPU converted to a real KDJ. It's as simple as new ROMS and
one resistor. I also removed the s-box bracket to fit my chassis. Runs BSD 2.11 just fine
(RQDX3 disks)
Joe
On Oct 19, 2015, at 12:28 PM, jwsmobile <jws at
jwsss.com> wrote:
I would appreciate thoughts on the conversion of the processor to normal PDP11 eproms.
The page pointed to earlier has a mention of that too, but the poster had access to
another "real" KDJ and I am guessing copied that.
I don't have access to any version of the system with appropriate eproms and would
appreciate any pointers to the binaries needed.
As to the condition most of the material is the result of moving it from where it was
stored. It will be totally disassembled and tested before being brought back up. There
is about 5 or 6 large deep freeze (for reference) sized piles of material being sent for
e-waste from the place that is pretty much just junk material under the weather.
Think of this as a Dusenberg rescued from a barn though.
thanks for all the suggestions and observations.
Next thing to go over is a Sun 4/260 "mini" tower. Gads those were heavy.
Back is still aching from moving that.
Jim
On 10/19/2015 7:32 AM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 3:42 AM, Pontus Pihlgren
<pontus at update.uu.se> wrote:
Interesting. I thought Tthe DECserver 550 was merely the big brother in
the terminal server line. But it looks like it is essentially a
PDP-11/53 with 1.5MW of ram, you need new boot roms though. Pretty nice.
Yep.
It's essentially an S-box KDJ11 with different ROMs. I happen
to have a CPU board from one, but not the box itself.
One of these days, I plan to burn "real" PDP-11 ROMs and bring 2.11BSD
up on mine. That and my Pro380 are my only KDJ11 machines.
-ethan