[rescue] Rescue a PDP

[Linc Fessenden]

On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Dave McGuire wrote:

> On July 17, Linc Fessenden wrote:
> > I have an aquaintance that would like to donate a working PDP 11/34 (I
> > think) in a 3' rack to me for my "collection".  Does this sound like a
> > worthwhile deal?  I know just about nothing about these machines.  He says
> > it run's rt-11 and some other OS which run's on top of rt-11..  What do
> > you think?
> 
>   Uhh, FUCK YES!  Is "free" a worthwhile deal?  Always.  But this is
> an 11/34, a damn nice pdp11.  One of these was my first "real" computer
> many years ago.  They're wonderful machines.
> 
>   That OS that runs atop RT-11 would be TSX-PLUS.  RT-11 is a realtime

Yep, that was is - TSX..

> OS...good, but not what I'd call featureful or even very much fun.
> It's not multiuser in the strict traditional sense, but it does
> support background tasks.  TSX adds timesharing-like multiuser
> capabilies to RT-11.  For Big Coolness you'd get either RSX-11M or
> RSTS/E to run on there.  Those are both *sweet* OSs.  Later releases
> of RSTS/E (v9 and up) can use DCL as the command shell, so it feels a
> lot like VMS.
> 
>   What kind of disks are on this machine?
> 
>       -Dave

What are my choices?  I can't remember what he told me (something big)..
Can I get any sort of networking to run on this at all BTW?  I know he
said it was a Qbus PDP and not a Unibus...

-- 
-Linc Fessenden

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