From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: downing.nick+tuhs@gmail.com (Nick Downing) Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 09:22:25 +1100 Subject: [TUHS] pdp11 question In-Reply-To: <20101114070830.GA11642@dereel.lemis.com> References: <20101114010336.GG8212@bitmover.com> <4CDF4292.8080306@bsdimp.com> <20101114070830.GA11642@dereel.lemis.com> Message-ID: Greg, I am in Melbourne and very interested in the 11/73. You might have noticed in my earlier posts I'm a 2.11BSD experimenter, it would be really, really great to have an 11 running 2.11BSD on my home network for experiments. Do you have a DEQNA? It would be well looked after, though space is a problem sometimes (as it is for everyone) and I may have to put it in storage from time to time in my father's warehouse, I keep a lot of my computer parts there. Like you, I am keen to see these important artifacts preserved. If for some reason I couldn't keep it, I would probably donate to the Australian Computer History Museum, the only problem with that is they're in Sydney. I would be really keen to see some of these computers staying in Melbourne where enthusiasts could access them... cheers, Nick PS. My wife will be furious ;) On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > 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 > -- > Finger grog at FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. > See complete headers for address and phone numbers. > This message is digitally signed. See > http://www.lemis.com/grog/email/signed-mail.php for more details. > If your Microsoft MUA reports problems, please read > http://tinyurl.com/broken-mua > > _______________________________________________ > TUHS mailing list > TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org > https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: