Minix - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

17 Nov 2005

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Subject: Re: Minix
   From: woodelf <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca>
   Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 09:08:58 -0700
     To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at
classiccmp.org>

gordonjcp at gjcp.net wrote:

 I just paid about ?30 for some PDP11/03 boards,
CPU, MXV11 and some kind
of serial card (can't remember the exact type).  I had a BA23 lying around
empty, and an RQDX3.  Now I need some media...

 Well what about a whole set  ?  A lot of people like myself can't be 
mix-ing and matching
part.  I just want to pen the  box and  plug it in if  I were to buy one. 
Why not?  generally building Qbus PDP11s is like the proverbial chinese
menu.  One from column A one from B and One from C.

You need a Qbus box there are three common ones.
A cpu there are 4 common cheap ones.
Memory Various and second sources.

Serial IO one will do (or more) gobs of choices.
Common choices are DLV11F (single line) or DLV11J
four line.  OR MXV11 (two serial and ram on one card)

The crunch item is storage as it's often big or
if reasonably current like anything SCSI not 
common hence expensive.

...
 PS  A small HD would be nice too. I got a terminal
already 
<sarcasm warning>
And you want it delivered configured for free.

Allison