From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [45.79.103.53]) by inbox.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 2373f63b for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2018 10:57:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id AC37DA2049; Thu, 25 Oct 2018 20:57:16 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 550879E565; Thu, 25 Oct 2018 20:56:50 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 6925594129; Thu, 25 Oct 2018 20:56:48 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mercury.lcs.mit.edu (mercury.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.122]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F4185940F6 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2018 20:56:47 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Postfix, from userid 11178) id 1929518C0A0; Thu, 25 Oct 2018 06:56:47 -0400 (EDT) To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org Message-Id: <20181025105647.1929518C0A0@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2018 06:56:47 -0400 (EDT) From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa) Subject: Re: [TUHS] System III on 11/34 + rl02 X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" > From: Jacob Ritorto > If this is true, I wonder why the install only offers rl01? Where does it say this? (I didn't search for that.) > I'm totally in the market for an Able Enable board too! Out of > zcuriosity, is it totally out of the question to just find the prints > and do a production run? Rotsa ruck! They're down the same mine as Jimmy Hoffa!! :-) But seriously, if you could find them, that would be fantastic. I've managed to collect (thanks Clem!) a tiny bit of info about them: http://gunkies.org/wiki/Able_ENABLE and I _think_ I've worked out how they worked, but more is better. We had a set of the prints at MIT BITD, but we didn't have the PROM/PLA/PAL/etc programming info, and one would need that too to reproduce them. > I sure hope there's a pdp11 sdcard / usb disk solution someday like they > did for the Commodore 64 So Dave Bridgham and I have been working on a QBUS card with an FPGA that uses an SD card to hold the bits, and emulates an RK11/RP11/etc controller. We have a wire-wrap prototype working (the RK11's done, the RP11 should be a short edit of that), and UNIX boots and runs. Now to turn it into PCB's... We've planned that the next step will be to do a UNIBUS version, which will also include ENABLE functionality (although it won't be plug compatible with an ENABLE, the memory will be on-board). Now to find the time/energy to make it happen... :-( Noel