Unix on old-ish machines - advice sought

Stan Barr stanb at dial.pipex.com
Fri Apr 8 03:35:07 CDT 2005


Hi,

Zane H. Healy said:
> At 10:24 PM +0100 4/7/05, Pete Turnbull wrote:
> >On Apr 7 2005,  8:59, Stan Barr wrote:
> >
> >>  My 11/73 has quite a small hard disk and small memory, and I'd like
> >>  to keep it running RT-11 as it has some sort of colour frame-buffer
> >>  card and the software for that is RT-11 (though I've not figured it
> >>  out yet - must take the covers off and see exactly *what* the card
> >>  is!)
> >
> >Sounds interesting!
> 
> No kidding!  I've got a 3rd party framebuffer for my PDP-11/73, but 
> have never gotten it working, in part because I'm not sure what it 
> would take to hook up a monitor or even what type monitor would be 
> needed. 

When I get a round tuit I'll hook up the scope to the bnc outputs
on mine and see what comes out, I should be able to figure out
what sort of monitor is needed, there aren't that many common options.

-- 
Cheers,
Stan Barr  stanb at dial.pipex.com

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