PDP-11/73 booting!

[Jon Miles]

David,

Glad to hear you have it up and running! That's great!

Jon 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org 
> [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of David Betz
> Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 6:54 PM
> To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
> Subject: Re: PDP-11/73 booting!
> 
> Well, I have bad news and good news. The bad news is that I 
> was unable to fix my RL01 cable. I tried a few approaches to 
> reconnect the pins I could see were disconnected and wasn't 
> able to get it to work. However, the good news is that I was 
> able to acquire another cable and that fixed the problem 
> entirely. In fact, the PDP-11/73 booted off the RL01 pack the 
> first time I powered it up. I have three packs and was able 
> to read all of them. One contains RT-11 V5.5, another is a 
> TSX-Plus system disk but appears just to boot RT-11SJ.  
> It does have lots of files on it with ".tsx" extensions but 
> doesn't seem to boot TSX. The third is a blank scratch pack.
> 
> I'm now in the market for a cable and breakout panel (cab 
> kit?) for my RQDX3 controller so that I can connect an ST225 
> drive and an RX50 floppy drive to my 11/73. I know it's 
> possible to build one of these but from my experience with 
> attempting to fix the RL01 cable, I don't think I want to 
> tackle that project. If someone has a cable and breakout 
> panel they'd like to sell please get in touch with me.
> 
> Anyway, thanks to everyone who has given me help with this 
> machine. I now have a working PDP-11/73 with 1.5mb of memory, 
> an RX02 floppy drive and an RL01 hard drive and it's all working!
> 
>