On 2012-10-30 04:30, Gregg Levine wrote: On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 11:07 PM, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote: On Oct 29, 2012, at 11:03 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote: On 10/29/2012 10:55 PM, Sampsa Laine wrote: I missed that part, that's an actual PDP-11? Can we get a photo or something? Here you go, taken just now: http://www.neurotica.com/misc/pdp1153-1.jpg http://www.neurotica.com/misc/pdp1153-2.jpg Not exactly quality portraits, but you get the idea. ;) I can take some better ones if you guys are interested in some quality DECporn. ;) I'd enjoy some quality DECporn. :p Unrelated: but if you ever want an interesting and absolutely useless task, you should try and set that up as a fuzzball. I found a bit of a "guide" but couldn't get it working in simh, could prove challenging to get the files to real disks though. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA Hello! Don't laugh folks. At one point I actually wanted an LSI-11 here to work with. Then I ran out of space.... Now I'm interested in this thing: Models without standard bus PDT-11/150 PDT-11/110 PDT-11/130 PDT-11/150 The PDT series were desktop systems marketed as "smart terminals". The /110 and /130 were housed in a VT100 terminal enclosure. The /150 was housed in a table-top unit which included two 8 inch floppy drives, three asynchronous serial ports, one printer port, one modem port and one synchronous serial port and required an external terminal. All three employed the same chipset as used on the LSI-11/03 and LSI-11/2 in four "microm"s. There was an option which combined two of the microms into one dual carrier, freeing one socket for an EIS/FIS chip. The /150 in combination with a VT105 terminal was also sold as MiniMINC, a budget version of the MINC-11. I abstracted the text from this Wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-11 . I figured that of all of the machines we know that one is least well known. I'm not sure what I can do with any of them, but I certainly hope I could manage something appropriate to what we are discussing. Incidentally Dave I'm still waiting. Outside your place are a van of frustrated yetis and related individuals in a brown van who're waiting and watching. You can alternatively look for a VT103 as well, since that is pretty much the same thing as a PDT-11/130. If you do some wiring on the Qbus backplane, you can do 22-bit. Throw in an 11/93 CPU, SCSI and what else, and you'll have an awesome system in a VT100 body. Johnny