[geeks] New toy!

[Brian Hechinger]

On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 07:24:45PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> Some of you may remember a very nice man from White Arrow in the UK telling
> us that they had some PDP-11s to give to loving homes.  Well, after several
> anxious weeks, one just turned up on my doorstep.  Woo-hoo!

excellent.

> It's a /73 with an RD-52A disk.  There's no expansion cards, just a serial
> port and an odd-looking Centronics style port labelled 'FGH PDP 1'.  It's
> going to be some time before I get round to working on it, but the
> intention is to put it online via a terminal server.  I'll give accounts
> to people who want to test their code on a bizarre machine - if it works
> on $Unix_of_choice and a PDP, it'll probably work anywhere :-)

that's cool.  so what OS are you thinking of running on it?  why not slap an
ethernet board in there and put TCP/IP on it?  that's what i plan on doing with
my RT-11 box once i get my hands on an ethernet card for it.

also, can't wait to get my 11/83 running.  2.11BSD here we come!!!!  :)

-brian