Real PDP11 model question
Paul Koning
pkoning at equallogic.com
Sun Sep 19 18:09:06 CDT 2004
>>>>> "Zane" == Zane H Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> writes:
>> >>>>> "Ron" == Ron Hudson <ron.hudson at sbcglobal.net> writes:
>>
Ron> Were there any PDP11's as small as the DECmate III?
>> PDT 110?
>>
>> paul
Zane> How big is a PDT-11/110? My PDT-11/150 is quite a bit larger
Zane> than a DECmate III.
Zane> To the best of my knowledge the smallest possible PDP-11 made
Zane> out of real hardware would be a 4-slot dual-height backplane,
Zane> with a dual-height CPU (ideally a PDP-11/73), DLV-11J
Zane> (providing console port), 3rd party disk controller w/bootstrap
Zane> (preferably SCSI). That would leave room for one additional
Zane> dual-height board. You'd have to figure out the power-supply
Zane> and how to wire up any disk or tape drives. I'd build
Zane> something like this, if I had the backplane, but I don't.
For standard modules, that sounds right.
It would be interesting to check the size of the LA120 electronics
module. That has a PDP11 (T-11) on it, I believe.
paul
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