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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">John Wilson has the schematic and design files for making up a cable that’ll work with KDJ11-B (and some other DEC CPU boards and DLV11-J SLUs) here:
<a href="http://www.dbit.com/wilson/dlvdb25/">http://www.dbit.com/wilson/dlvdb25/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">Glitch sells pre-made cables on Tindie for $10 each:
<a href="https://www.tindie.com/products/glitchwrks/dlvdb25-dlv11-j-rs-232-adapter-cable/">
https://www.tindie.com/products/glitchwrks/dlvdb25-dlv11-j-rs-232-adapter-cable/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span style="color:windowtext"> rescue <rescue-bounces@sunhelp.org>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Steve Hatle<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 11, 2022 2:46 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [rescue] New to me PDP-11/23+<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks everyone - all good info!<br>
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Unless I'm missing something, my board only has one SLU - J1. J2 is a 20 pin connector and would be used to bring out the DIP switch settings, etc. If there's another 10-pin hiding on there, I missed it, and the board is not handy to double-check. Also, see
the pic here: <a href="https://gunkies.org/wiki/KDJ11-B_CPU">https://gunkies.org/wiki/KDJ11-B_CPU</a><br>
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I was hoping the answer to boot media would be as "simple" as making a bootable image and dd'ing to a Zip disk. I should be able to manage this along with building a console cable.<br>
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I'm sure you'll hear more as I move forward!<br>
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<span style="color:#909AA4">October 11, 2022 at 12:35 PM</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#909AA4">Thanks for the clarification Dave. About the bulkhead, I was not referring to the on-board connectors on the KDJ11-B. When the OP mentioned 'bulkhead' I thought he meant the circuit board that contains DB9,
DB25, etc. which is usually bolted to the chassis. The link I posted described the connections from the on-board SLU connector to the bulkhead connector. DEC had a number of bulkhead configurations on their machines. In any case, I re-read the OPs post and
realized his system does not have the bulkhead connector, on the two 10-pin Berg/IDC connectors on board.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#909AA4">To clarify things, the link I posted:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#909AA4">describes the pinouts for the 10-pin Berg connector.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#909AA4">October 11, 2022 at 8:27 AM</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#909AA4"> Just expanding on a few points below.
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The bulkheads for console SLU differed according to what the machine was (Qbus, Unibus) and they varied within the backplane family.
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Steve said he has a KDJ11-B processor board. This processor has two onboard SLUs which use the 10-pin connectors, not the 40-pins.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#909AA4">I think you will need to know the disk type emulation the cpu is expecting to boot from.B This info is contained in the boot proms and configured via the onboard jumpers.
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There's virtually no chance of it being anything other than MSCP. Several companies made Qbus SCSI host adapters; all of them (or nearly so) implement MSCP.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#909AA4">To run BSD 2.x requires separate I&D space and the usual upgrade was to exchange the 11/23 cpu board for a 11/73 board.
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Not quite. 2.11BSD, the last release, is the first release to require split I/D space. 2.10BSD and prior will run on the 11/23.
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<span style="color:#909AA4">October 10, 2022 at 11:48 PM</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#909AA4">The bulkheads for console SLU differed according to what the machine was (Qbus, Unibus) and they varied within the backplane family.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#909AA4">Without having my notes in front of me, the information on this wikipedia page is very helpful. From what I can remember, this looks to be correct:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#909AA4">Back in the day, I designed and built my own SLU interface/bulkheads for our lab machines. If I can find my notes, I'll update the info.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#909AA4">If you haven't already, you should check out bitsavers for some very useful documentation on the KDJ11-B. Specifically the KDJ11-B CPU Module Users Guide EK-KDJ1B-UG-001<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#909AA4">Useful information on how to configure the jumpers on the board, and set the baud rate for the SLU. The joys of ODT are well explained in the second manual. The User Guide does a good overview but the System
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#909AA4">You can configure the CPU board to use the onboard SLU as the console or another asynchronous serial card such as the DLV11-J. Not sure what config you have. The manual for the DLV11-J is also on bitsavers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#909AA4">Software - I can't help much here as my machines use RL02 and I have actual packs for RT11 and RSX11. OS's can be loaded using SIMH in at least a couple of ways. There is a TU-58 emulator via a serial line
interface. As you mentioned, you need to get the SLU working to use it. IIRC, there are RT and RSX-11M versions (documents and compressed images , RL01 format I think). I think you will need to know the disk type emulation the cpu is expecting to boot from.
This info is contained in the boot proms and configured via the onboard jumpers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#909AA4">October 10, 2022 at 6:00 PM</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#909AA4">I recently came into an 11/23+ machine. It has a KDJ11-B CPU board, a MSV11-Q memory board, a SCSI board that was driving a SCSI Zip drive for boot media, and two cards that were used to control a laser cutter.
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First issue is that there is no "bulkhead" to bring out the console connection, so I need to figure out how to get a terminal connected to the J1 SLU connector. This is 9 pins, but I can't seem to find definitive info on what the pin assignments are here, and
exactly which pin is #1. Once I know these things, I'm sure I can make a cable with TX/RX/GND to get a console going. Anyone have pointers? I found a set of schematics but what I think is showing J1 doesn't make sense to me.
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Then, I need to figure out how to get software set up to run the thing. I didn't receive any of the Zip media previously used, or any documentation for the machine. I'm guessing I can use SIMH and perhaps build a bootable Zip or other SCSI drive, but that will
need to wait until I can at least talk to the thing. Lacking any other serial ports, I don't think I'll be able to take advantage fo the TU58 emulator or other solutions.
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