At 5:00 PM -0400 6/21/09, Dave McGuire wrote: Well... If someone actually wants a *REAL* PDP-11/03, and can pick it up locally (I will not ship it), they can contact me. I'm in the Portland, Oregon area. I have three that came with my /23. I've had them for about 10 years, and have never even tried to power them on. At 4:53 PM -0400 6/21/09, steve shumaker wrote: What part of the world are you located? Zane -- | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | | healyzh at aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast | | MONK::HEALYZH (DECnet) | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. | | http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |

In article &lt;p06240819c66450cd09ec(a)[192.168.1.199]&gt;9]>, "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com> writes: le. I drove to Carson City, NV from SLC, UT to get my 11/03 + 2 RL01s in a nice big heavy cabinet + LA120. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html> Legalize Adulthood! <http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/>

steve shumaker wrote: No ... it boils down to how much you want that 11. Pay a high school kid ... pick up this box , you have all summer to get it here. :)

In article <4A400E6D.6090700 at att.net>, steve shumaker <shumaker at att.net> writes: I've done round-trips to St. Louis, MO (fly out, drive back over two days) and Tucson, AZ (long 1-day drive each way). For that distance, I'd use Craters & Freighters. A clotheswasher sized 11/03 cabinet is not going to be dinged up by typical freight handling, just wrap and strap to a pallet ought to be good enough. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html> Legalize Adulthood! <http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/>

In article <m1MJ9wE-000J3jC at p850ug1>, ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) writes: I own one of these cabinets, so I would bet on it. Of course there's no guarantees. People can drive a forklift straight through your shipment no matter how well crated it is. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html> Legalize Adulthood! <http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/>

In article <e1d20d630906231230i5858c64fsc05c9c4583ebe2e2 at mail.gmail.com>, William Donzelli <wdonzelli at gmail.com> writes: Wrap & Strap treatment is the cheapest you can get from C&F. I've done that on a couple of occasions and been happy with it. I've also gone the full custom wooden crate 8'x6'x4' and been happy with that. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html> Legalize Adulthood! <http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/>

On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, Richard wrote: Which machines are heavy enough to destroy the forklift instead of your computer?

photos are loaded at http://picasaweb.google.com/traveler8811 Dave McGuire wrote: That would explain why I wasn't finding in any of the cards associated with the 11/03. So this unit was significantly upgraded in some fashion? Date stamps on the 8059 and 8186 are jan 1985. most other stamps are 1980... the unit was supposedly pulled from the internal network of the Borden Chemical Co but there are CompuServe inventory stickers on the boards. The cable terminates in a DB50female connector and the "console" cable terminates in 4 wires into a bare db25male connector I look ed over the entire chassis but could see no BA series numbers. There are 2 11/03 model numbers in the back (looks like some sort of upgrade sequence) but nothing BA related. Where would they be?

At 8:11 PM -0400 6/21/09, Dave McGuire wrote: Wasn't that a dual-height CPU board I saw? If so I am wondering what sort of boot ROM it might have. Zane -- | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | | healyzh at aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast | | MONK::HEALYZH (DECnet) | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. | | http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |

On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 7:51 PM, steve shumaker <shumaker at att.net> wrote: Nice. None of those boards are from the PDP-11/03 era, except perhaps the DLV-11F (M8028). It's pretty much had a total makeover. Interesting (I have plenty of stuff from CompuServe, and my 11/70s came from Borden). Are you in Columbus, or did you just get the equipment from Columbus (however indirectly)? that attaches to the M8028 via the thin cable and the 40-pin BERG connector. The ribbon cable that goes into your RQDX1 that has the DD50P connector on it, probably went to an external disk box. I have one or two - they are the same enclosure as an external TK50, sometimes called a Leprechaun box, but depending on what was meant to go inside, there were different backpanel boards for the purpose. One such board exists for an external MFM drive over a single 50-pin cable. That's probably what originally attached to your machine. As has been hashed over on the list recently, all RQDXn controllers use the same 50-pin pinout to provide signals for floppy and disk. How many and what type depend on your cabling and the model (revision) of your controller. I saw that Dave McGuire offered you a BDV-11 and an RQDX3. You'll probably want those. One hassle with the RQDX1 is that it doesn't pass grant and has to be the last card in the system. The RQDX3 won't have that limitation. It's meant to be near last (which makes the cabling in a BA23 easy), but it will work in other places. The BDV-11 will give you boot ROMs and terminate your bus (the other termination is on the CPU). In a BA23, IIRC, the bus is terminated on the backplane itself, so you don't need a BDV-11 there. Depending on what ROMs are on the BDV11, you might want to explore burning new ones. I don't recall if the MSCP bootstrap (DU device) is there or not - probably it depends on how old the BDV11 is. Mostly, I use them with controllers like the RLV12, so I know that works fine. It shouldn't be difficult to get you up and running on 5.25" floppies or a smallish MFM hard disk. With the CPU and memory you have there, I'd recommend RT-11. 2.11BSD won't run on that CPU (no Split I+D space), and 2.9BSD won't really be happy with that little RAM. RT-11 will work great with 64Kw (your M8059 card), and work fine on 5.25" floppy or small hard disk. You will probably be able to use an RX33 floppy with whatever RQDX3 that Dave sends you. With your RQDX1 (and the same cables), I think you are stuck with the RX50. One advantage the RX50 has is that it's two slots (one positioner), so you can boot from one diskette and swap out the other. The disadvantage is that they are weird, and if you don't already have one, you might not want to mess with them. The RX33 is a standard Teac FD55GFR as seen in many PCs of the 286 and 386 era, with certain jumpers set a certain way to make the motors and lights and select work in the expected fashion. The drive itself, though, is identical to the one in PCs. There are setup instruction on the 'net that aren't hard to find (or at least weren't the last time I looked). I hope this info helps you sort out the hardware you have in front of you. -ethan