Is The M9312 Boot Module Essential?

[Bill Degnan]

Here is how I used mine on a PDP 11/05.  Literally right now.
1.  Boot up the system and use the front panel to load 165020(8)
2.  Run from this address
3.  My system is set to communicate with a Teletype, so it comes to life
and prints the status of the CPU registers to the teletype
4.  I type in L 0 to load memory address 000(8)
5.  I have BASIC stored to load from this address, so the system sends
READY to the teletype and I can then run BASIC commands.

THe M9312 is a luxury, I could just as easily just loaded 000 from the
start and it would have initiated BASIC.

Bill

On Sat, Feb 19, 2022 at 3:11 PM Fritz Mueller via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:

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> > On Feb 19, 2022, at 10:51 AM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk <
> cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> > The -11/34 (not the /34A) has something unusual for grant timeouts, but I
> > forget the details. I'll look it up.
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> I just did an 11/34 restoration last year, so this is fresh in mind — I
> think you are thinking of the M9302, Noel: a far-side terminator card with
> integrated SACK turnaround?
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>    —FritzM.
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