From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: wb2gbf@gmail.com (Pasquale Villani) Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 21:43:19 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] pdp11 question In-Reply-To: <4CDF4292.8080306@bsdimp.com> Message-ID: This thread made me a little curious so I went to eBay and found an 11/44 there: http://cgi.ebay.com/DEC-PDP11-44-Computer-Loaded-w-Cards-No-Reserve-/3902560 88856?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5add135718#shId There's also an FPGA SoC on opencores.com that runs 5th edition UNIX and 2.11 BSD UNIX: http://opencores.org/project,w11 The latter had been a little more than a passing interest for me, but I just haven't had the time to play with it. Pat On 11/13/10 8:59 PM, "Warner Losh" wrote: > On 11/13/2010 18:03, Larry McVoy wrote: >> 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. A lower-end version was the Digital PRO > 350 and 360. > > 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. > > Warner >> 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. >>> >>> Tim Newsham | www.thenewsh.com/~newsham | thenewsh.blogspot.com >>> _______________________________________________ >>> TUHS mailing list >>> TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org >>> https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs > > _______________________________________________ > TUHS mailing list > TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org > https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs >