From: grog@lemis.com (Greg 'groggy' Lehey)
Subject: [TUHS] pdp11 question
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 18:08:30 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101114070830.GA11642@dereel.lemis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CDF4292.8080306@bsdimp.com>
On Saturday, 13 November 2010 at 18:59:46 -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> On 11/13/2010 18:03, Larry McVoy wrote:
>> On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 02:38:29PM -1000, Tim Newsham wrote:
>>> How much does an old pdp-11 type system cost these
>>> days (ie. a pdp-11/40 with disks and terminal capable
>>> of running something like 1st, 6th or 7th ed)?
>>>
>>> How much power do they take up to power on?
>>> Whats maintenance like on those things?
>>>
>>> I've always been curious.
>>
>> Back in the day there was something called a microvax and I think there
>> was a micropdp - it was a tall slim thing. Might google that.
>
> The MicroPDP11 was in more or less the same form factor as the
> MicroVAX I and II (also marketed as VaxStation I and II). It was
> also known as something like the PDP 11/73.
I wasn't aware of a MicroPDP-11, but I have an LSI-11/73, photos at
http://www.lemis.com/grog/photos/Photos.php?dirdate=20001122&imagesizes=112#Photo-2
or
http://www.lemis.com/grog/photos/Photos.php?dirdate=20061027&imagesizes=13#Photo-1
Clearly it's a little larger than a MicroVAX.
If anybody's interested, this machine is up for grabs. I don't want
any money for it, just the knowledge that it will be looked after. It
comes with a lot of tapes and (RL-02) disks, and also lots of
documentation. If anybody here in Australia wants it, you're welcome
to come and pick it up.
> I don't know if any of these ran Unix or not, but you might look
> into them. A few years ago, the PROs were really cheap and used
> about the same power as a PC from 1985.
This one does. I gather the architecture is identical to the
PDP-11/73. One of the tapes includes the 7th Edition.
Greg
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-14 7:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-14 0:38 Tim Newsham
2010-11-14 1:03 ` Larry McVoy
2010-11-14 1:59 ` Warner Losh
2010-11-14 2:43 ` Pasquale Villani
2010-11-14 7:08 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey [this message]
2010-11-14 9:56 ` Wilko Bulte
2010-11-17 23:36 ` Pete Turnbull
2010-11-14 22:22 ` Nick Downing
2010-11-15 0:17 ` Larry McVoy
2010-11-14 9:51 ` Wilko Bulte
2010-11-18 6:34 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2010-11-14 12:32 ` Pete Turnbull
2010-11-14 8:14 ` Jochen Kunz
2010-11-14 14:01 ` Pat Villani
2010-11-18 18:57 Norman Wilson
2010-11-18 19:26 ` Bill Pechter
2010-11-18 19:27 ` Carl Lowenstein
2010-11-18 21:03 ` Wilko Bulte
2010-11-29 23:05 ` Ian King
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