27 Jul
2001
27 Jul
'01
2:45 p.m.
I've got the following PDP-11 equipment free for pickup in
Austin, Texas. David Williams from Houston has first shot
since he is coming to pick up some uVAX-IIs, but anything else
left is fair game. If you come get something (email me first!),
you have to promise that it wont be scrapped or the front panels
sold on eBay for some rich CEO's wall collection. I'd like it to
all go to good homes where it will be appreciated. (god, I sound
like an animal shelter)
- PDP-11/60 and UNIBUS expansion cage (and some maintenance printsets)
- two RX01's
- one RK05J
If anyone is interested, please email me. This stuff CAN NOT and WILL
NOT be shipped - i cant even get some of it out of the crate I got it
in. 8-(
Bill
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Bill Bradford
mrbill(a)mrbill.net
Austin, TX
27 Jul
27 Jul
4:11 p.m.
--- Bill Bradford <mrbill(a)mrbill.net> wrote:
I've got the following PDP-11 equipment free for
pickup in
Austin, Texas....
- PDP-11/60 and UNIBUS expansion cage (and some maintenance printsets)
Too bad it's so far from Ohio. If we could only delete KY through OK, it'd
be much closer.
The only reason I've ever wanted an 11/60 is because long ago, I heard
the story that its microcode engine was verified by a DEC engineer whose
hobby was hacking the PDP-8 instruction set where it shouldn't belong.
I heard he succeded in turning a PDP-11/60 in the Mill into the world's
fastest PDP-8. Dunno what you could do about peripherals, though.
-ethan
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5:34 p.m.
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 06:11:14PM -0700, Ethan Dicks wrote:
The only reason I've ever wanted an 11/60 is
because long ago, I heard
the story that its microcode engine was verified by a DEC engineer whose
hobby was hacking the PDP-8 instruction set where it shouldn't belong.
I heard he succeded in turning a PDP-11/60 in the Mill into the world's
fastest PDP-8. Dunno what you could do about peripherals, though.
-ethan
This is a /60 *without* the chassis (er, rack?) you'd need something
to mount it in... i've got the power supplies and everything, though.
Bill
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Bill Bradford
mrbill(a)mrbill.net
Austin, TX
28 Jul
28 Jul
2:40 a.m.
New subject: 11/60 emulating PDP8
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 06:11:14PM -0700, Ethan Dicks
wrote:
> The only reason I've ever wanted an 11/60 is because long ago, I heard
> the story that its microcode engine was verified by a DEC engineer whose
> hobby was hacking the PDP-8 instruction set where it shouldn't belong.
> I heard he succeded in turning a PDP-11/60 in the Mill into the world's
> fastest PDP-8. Dunno what you could do about peripherals, though.
> -ethan
Worked great for Reuters who used 8's for routing their news
teletypes... but they wanted something faster.
The word I heard is they were the ones that used the PDP8 emulating
11/60's. I guess normal PDP 11 io devices were used along
with the emulation of the 8's trapping to the normal 11 instruction
set to do the i/o.
Perhaps disk container files were used for the 8 files and
DZ or DH11 lines were set up to emulate the KL8's...
bill
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