PDP-11 bootup - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

26 Mar 2009

At 10:23 PM 3/25/2009 -0400, you wrote:
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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

I just brought home my spiffy new MicroPDP-11, hooked it up to my
laptop (couldn't find cables to go to any real terminals) and tried
booting. Right now, all I see at power-on is:
173000
@

I can type things after the @, but it seems that pretty much any
keypress results in a '?' and a new prompt.

I'm a total PDP-11 newb, but the users manual implied that I should be
seeing some sort of post-ish procedure similar to what you get on a
VAX. Any ideas? 
Type G
If that doesn't work, try 173000G

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