25 Mar
2009
25 Mar
'09
8:17 p.m.
On Mar 25, 2009, at 7:23 PM, John Floren <slawmaster at gmail.com> wrote:
I just brought home my spiffy new MicroPDP-11, hooked
it up to my
laptop (couldn't find cables to go to any real terminals) and tried
booting. Right now, all I see at power-on is:
173000
@
I can type things after the @, but it seems that pretty much any
keypress results in a '?' and a new prompt.
I'm a total PDP-11 newb, but the users manual implied that I should be
seeing some sort of post-ish procedure similar to what you get on a
VAX. Any ideas?
It depends on a few factors. Not all 11 CPU modules have Boot ROMs on
board, and if they do not all you'll get is the ODT ('@') prompt.
What CPU module is in this machine?
But you'll also get the OdT prompt if you power up the machine with
the Halt switch on, so you may want to check that.
josh
John
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