Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 07:55:31 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Tom Jackson <tom@geotec.net> Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Have PDP Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9903040747030.29440-100000@feral-gw> In-Reply-To: <19990304092550.A5702@peeper.TOJ.org>
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Really? You know, I've quite regretted dumping my 11/23 and 11/73 systems some years back.....What kind of tape drives? What drive controller cards? Probably, if it's an 11/83 (very late model) they'll be MSCP. I'm pretty sure folks I know could locate some disk h/w for you- although maybe by now this stuff has all been et up by entropy. It's a boat anchor for running a full fledged Unix system, but there's lots of neat older Unix systems to run on it and lots of clever systems like RSX-11 or RT-11 to run. It'd be a sick^H^H^H^Hneat research project to see whether NFS could be implemented for something this old (and 16 bit word size too!). This is all quite interesting because at OSDI Chuck Cranor gave me the URL for the PDP-11 *simulator* that one can run RSTS or various PDP-11 Unix systems in: http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mader/delta On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Tom Jackson wrote: > Hi all, > > Was going to do some research before posting this but business > startup has been taking a lot of time. Maybe Mike Smith or other > ex-spurts can give me a simple answer. > > I picked up a PDP 11/83 at a American Airlines garage sale. It has > the tape backup (and 2 boxes of tapes) but is missing the hard drives. > Is there any hope/use or have I acquired a big boat anchor? > > -- > Tom > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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