[rescue] What to do with an orphan DEC Professional 350?

[BSD Bob the old greybeard BSD freak]

>   I've run a bunch of 'em.  They take LK201/LK401 keyboards and VR201
> or VR241 monitors.  They don't do serial consoles as far as I know.
> They can run Pro/Venix or DEC's P/OS (an RSX-11M/Plus derivative).
> The Pro-325 and -350 are based on the F11 chipset, and the Pro-380 is
> based on the J11.

OK, I got the keyboard, but I think the monitor may have been let out
to the landfill (I did not see it today, and the critter was marked with
a blue dot, indicating its final sale day before the landfill or it gets
shipped of to the state surplus repository, if deemed salvageable.

That is the same monitor on a VT220?  If so, maybe something will surface
later.  I have seen a few 220's go by.

> > (I know, it was stupid of me to pick it up.... but....(:+}}, for a buck!)
> 
>   Oh c'mon...they're neat machines.  A desktop PDP11!

In the uuuuuugliest case you ever saw.....(:+}}...

Well I was hoping I could run the little Venix on it, assuming I could
get some disks written.  I have the bin images, but not a good way to
write the disks.  I tried writing VAX Ultrix floppy sets, but got
nowhwere on my AT style drives.  I may see if I can run up a minimal
MVII with floppy again, and try that.

Is Venix a pretty much straight V7 clone?  I have never run it, myself.

Bob