Portable PDP-11 (was Re: Does anyone use RT-11?) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

10 Sep 2007

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Subject: Re: Portable PDP-11 (was Re: Does anyone use RT-11?)
   From: "e.stiebler" <emu at e-bbes.com>
   Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 12:18:26 -0600
     To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at
classiccmp.org>

Ethan Dicks wrote:
  If course, if a project were to erupt that was
some form of portable
 J-11 design w/1MB or more of SRAM and some local mass storage, I would
 certainly strongly consider building one, even if I had to borrow a
 J-11 chip from one of my two sources. 
But the j-11 are alos very easy to get, as a lot 11/73 boards are 
showing even on ebay for dirt cheap. And a SBC-11-+++ would be also a 
nice project, getting SCSI or IDE, 4 MBytes of ram, 100 mbit ethernet, ... 
IF you have the part on Qbus already then a small backplance with other
scaled sized parts and it's left to being a programming project.

Seriously I already have a BA11VA with 11/23, 235kb ram, IO and RQDX3 
in only four dual slots, why bother smaller?  

For that fact why wreck a J11 CPU board to make a J11 system?

Allison