On 07/02/2012 07:05 PM, Gregg Levine wrote: Software? Copies of everything that Al has on his bitsavers site. Manuals certainly, stuff he created using those wonderful tools of his. Hardware? Got me, I've got the SIMH stuff to emulate it, and several examples of the E11 kit. Ahh. I have lots of OS releases that aren't on bitsavers; contact me if you're looking for something specific. (and, erm, not ancient) But as for goals, I originally had an idea to have a PDP11, like your 11/53 there, respond to the strange stuff I build, along the lines of (Adam) LINC-8 and the Straight that I saw at the same time we met and your sidekick with his collection. Indeed, that sounds like fun. Who was my sidekick?? Ran out of space and time, for all of that. (I won't go into the annoying problems of funding for my daft ideas.) Right now I'm in a problematic NYC apartment that's short on space. Time to move! When the "embedded PDP-11" idea surfaced in the responses earlier today I realized that some of my ideas seemed to be doable but the "how and why" aspect surfaced...... Well "why" is easy: - because I can - because I want to The "how" part is rather more difficult, but I suspect you won't have much trouble. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA