[rescue] New to me PDP-11/23+

[Steve Hatle]

OK - so I now have a serial terminal hooked up to the 11/73, and when I 
power it up, I get the line

173000

and then the "@" prompt, which I assume means I'm in ODT.

 From what I can read, 173000 should be the address in the ROM to fire 
up the setup menu on the KDJ11-B board, but no matter what I'm entering 
at the prompt I either get back question marks or it seems to jump 
around to different memory addresses.

so anything like

@173000G

or entering a "p" after the machine comes up don't get me anywhere.

VT320 terminal is set to 9600 8N1, not sure if I need to do anything to 
differentiate between CR and LF as I'm entering things.

So - can you tell this obvious noob what I'm missing to get any further 
on this guy?

> Jim Carpenter <mailto:jim at deitygraveyard.com>
> October 17, 2022 at 7:38 PM
>
> Sure. I have a Xyplex MaxServer that boots off a CF card and does LAT
> and TCP/IP with no licenses needed. The user interface is just like a
> DECserver, which makes sense as the people that founded Xyplex were
> all DEC employees.
>
> Cisco terminal servers can also do LAT and TCP/IP.
>
> Jim
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> Peter Stokes <mailto:peter at ashlyn.co.uk>
> October 17, 2022 at 8:22 AM
> Hi
>
> You could use a TCP/IP terminal server instead with Unix? Some of them 
> did both LAT and TCP/IP from memory, though I may be mistaken.
>
> Peter
>
> Sent from my iPad
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> Dave McGuire <mailto:mcguire at neurotica.com>
> October 17, 2022 at 7:48 AM
>   Those terminal servers are fantastic, but that approach would 
> require LAT on the PDP-11.  That's possible, but not with any of the 
> UNIX implementations that Steve is considering.
>
>           -Dave
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