[geeks] New toy!

[David Cantrell]

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!

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 :-)

Now, if anyone has a Microvax II ...

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David Cantrell | david at cantrell.org.uk | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david

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