[rescue] can you beleive I do this as a *HOBBY*?

William Barnett-Lewis rescue at sunhelp.org
Thu Jul 12 23:22:39 CDT 2001


Ok, as someone who only ever saw 11's through the glass while watching
my parents hand over thier college class card decks or as unused scrap
at my tech school (just before I got there they upgraded to a pair of
3B1's driving more serial terms than I think ATT ever intended... ;') 

So for all the serious DEC folk here, if I were I to start looking for
real, what would be a good PDP-11 version (and related eq. specs too)
that would run BSD 2.11? (I say this as I know unix - I don't know the
DEC OS's. I'd rather something I can keep running than something too
cool for me to ken.)

Thanks in advance,

William

> From: dave at cca.org
> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 19:42:42 EDT
> Organization: The Center for Computational Aesthetics
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [rescue] can you beleive I do this as a *HOBBY*?
> Reply-To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> 
> schiller at mail.agrijag.com writes:
> 
> >RSTS-11 & BASIC-PLUS :) back in 1976 I took my one and only programming
> >class (BASIC programing) in HS on a PDP-11/70 running RSTS-11! The
> >'terminals' were Teletype ASR-33's, and we'd store our programs on
> >papertape! The little metal cans that 35mm film came in (now they're
> >plastic) were perfect for storing programs on papertape :) I can't
> >remember what RSTS stands for, but I used to know. Gee, now I feel old
> >:(
> 
> Once I get a decent space, a PDP-11/45 or 11/70 is the first large
> machine I'll go hunting for. Gorgeous front panels...
> 
> I'll be spending saturday playing with small 11s actually. We're
> having a "Q-BUS" workshop day at the RCS, so we're all going to
> bring our small 11s and spare parts in and see how many functional
> machines we can piece together...
> 
> (And hopefully get me an OS for my 11/23!)
> 


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It better be worth it   So much to die for.
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