VAX 8000 Console? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

8 Feb 2014

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 From: Pontus Pihlgren <pontus at Update.UU.SE>
 Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 08:46:33 +0100
 On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 02:55:41PM -0800, Zane Healy wrote:
  What kind of PDP-11's did VAX 8000's use
as Consoles, and what
 did their console software consist of.

 That depends, models 8600 and 8650 used an 11/03 with RX
 floppies (ours has an RL drive too). I'm not sure about the OS,
 I bet it is RT11.

 The other models didn't have a front end AFAIK.

 /P

 The 8650 at the RICM has a T-11 PDP-11 chip on the L0201 CSL board. The
BA11 chassis holds the Q-Bus for the CSL board and includes a M8061 RVL12
RL02 Disk Control for the RT11 boot disk.

The 8600 Console Specifications Manual is here:
http://manx.classiccmp.org/mirror/vt100.net/dec/ey-4818e-dx-0001.pdf

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Michael Thompson