Real PDP11 model question

[Ed Kelleher]

At 06:03 PM 9/19/2004, you wrote:

>How big is a PDT-11/110?  My PDT-11/150 is quite a bit larger than a 
>DECmate III.
>
>To the best of my knowledge the smallest possible PDP-11 made out of real 
>hardware would be a 4-slot dual-height backplane, with a dual-height CPU 
>(ideally a PDP-11/73), DLV-11J (providing console port), 3rd party disk 
>controller w/bootstrap (preferably SCSI).  That would leave room for one 
>additional dual-height board.  You'd have to figure out the power-supply 
>and how to wire up any disk or tape drives.  I'd build something like 
>this, if I had the backplane, but I don't.
>
>The smallest DEC PDP-11 that I'm aware of is the PDP-11/03, but you've got 
>to add a external drive of some sort.
>
>For people where a system the size of a BA23 is an issue, your best bet is 
>going to be to simply run under emulation.  In my case it isn't the size 
>of the systems so much that is an issue, it's how much space all the 
>documentation I have takes up!

What about the VT103, a VT100 with bigger power supply and 4 slot QBus 
backplane.

Ed K.