My PDP11/53 - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

15 Mar 2001

Another thing to try is to be sure that your terminal is working properly.
Be sure that with the cable attached to the terminal and disconnected from
the 11/53 there is no echo of characters typed at the terminal and when pins
2 and 3 are shorted together on the cable end that would attach to the 11/53
the terminal does echo back to itself. If this does not work, then you have
not properly faked out the modem control signals that the terminal requires
to work.
--tom
At 09:51 AM 3/15/01 +0100, you wrote:
...
    Chad Fernandez writes:
 > I got my PDP11/53, but I can't get it to do anything.  I loaded
 > Tera-Term on my IBM Model 80, to use as my terminal.  I   dug out a serial
  > cable, and bought a gender changer to hook
the two   computers up.  What
  > could I be doing wrong... I am not getting
anything!  I   see lights on
 > > the cards, but nothing on the screen. 
Where did you get this 11/53 ?
There are some versions (EPROMs) which are decserver versions.
So you don't get anything on the screen until you go to the debug/configuration
mode
...
 (try some of the modi on the bulkhead)
And, another one: try an <ctrl> <c>, or <ctrl> <p>.
If you got the "normal" version of the 11/53, it stops looking for the
boot device
...
 and is talking to you.
cheers