Fixed my pdt11/150

[Warner Losh]

On Sun, Apr 26, 2020, 5:36 PM Chris Zach via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:

> They were interesting little devices. Apparently someone ported
> Multiplan or Visicalc to one but Dec shot the project down. They were
> essentially a turnkey personal computer in the late 1970's but DEC was
> afraid they would cut into the sales of their minicomputers.
>
> So it was sold as a branch office terminal connector. You could boot
> RT11 and poll 4 terminals and a printer, sending the data over a sync
> serial modem port to the home office. Sad.
>
> Fortunately Dec wouldn't make the same mistake with the Professional
> systems. Oh wait, they did, no wonder they went out of business....
>

They made all new kinds of mistakes you never thought possible with the
pro, decmate and rainbow.

Warner

C
>
> On 4/26/2020 6:31 PM, John Foust via cctalk wrote:
> > At 03:33 PM 4/26/2020, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote:
> >> So I've had a boat anchor pdt11/150 here for awhile. It's probably one
> of the weirdest pdp11s ever built: An 11/03 CPU ish, six serial ports, ish,
> and a pair of RX01 drives.
> >
> > I remember using one for a while in the early 80s.  I kind of liked it.
> > I think the local DEC rep gave it to us for a song for some reason.
> >
> > - John
> >
>