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

[Dave McGuire]

On October 5, BSD Bob the old greybeard BSD freak wrote:
> On a lark.... I sometimes do a lot of things on a lark... I could not resist
> a dusty, musty, but not too rusty, DEC Professional 350 crate at todays
> Friday Friendly Feeding Frenzy (FFFF).  I bought it mostly to pull the
> dual floppy out of it as a VAX spare.  But, the thought occurred to me
> that Venix(?) or something like that ran on it.  I did not get a keyboard
> or monitor for it (DEC VT220ish thing, maybe?), but was wondering if there
> was a way to run a serial console off the critter for some testing?
> 
> Anyone ever do much or still run one of these DEC Professional 350 crates?

  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.

> (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!

    -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Laurel, MD