Mine's smaller than yours (Re: rewriting legacy OS for new iron) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

21 Sep 2004

On Sep 16 2004, 17:40, Greg Ewing wrote:
...
  Ron Hudson &lt;ron.hudson(a)sbcglobal.net&gt;et>:

 > I wish I had some DEC hardware, what's the physically smallest PDP11
...
   one could
find? 
 I have an SBC-11 system consisting of a power supply and
 4-slot backplane that's about the size of a couple of
 lunch boxes.

 Can anyone beat that? 
I can't (smallest 11 I have is an 11/03 with MXV11 and a Baydel floppy
controller in an H9273 with an ex-PC PSU), but I once wanted to put
together a system to control some other device that had serial ports,
and the easiest way seemed to be to use an 11/03 or 11/23 processor and
an MXV11.  I got as far as setting aside a dual-height processor, an
MXV11, and a PSU, and obtaining a set of DEC connectors to build a 2x2
backplane, but it never got assembled.

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