Oh, those marketing folk who designed the console switches -- how often I dreamed of appropriate places to send them for education...
PiDP-11 – Recreating PDP-11/70 with Raspberry Pi
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#22I, for one, appreciate these efforts to not only preserve history, but to make it available to new generations. There's so much that can be learned from these historical machines, and the look and feel is part of that :)
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#23Re: PiDP-11 – Recreating PDP-11/70 with Raspberry Pi
#24Now that you've got a PDP-11, you can run Empire on it!
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#25With this or a PiDP-8, I've idly thought about learning enough to write a "terminal operating system" so one could plug it into a USB port and get a shell to a Linux or BSD system. That way it could be of actual use to the owner after playing with older operating systems loses its allure.
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#26Similar in spirit, a recreation of the VAX-11/780: https://vxcompany.com/2016/02/13/a-working-vax-11780-revisit...
Where does one get that model?
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#27Nova 1200 would be easier. Just glass panel painted mostly black and regular off-the-shelf switches. Bigger problem is the menacing glow of blinkenlichts. Leds will never do.
Indeed, this era of machine retained a sort of “electromechanical” feel that the incandescent bulbs contribute to. Not to mention the DECwriter that was usually attached to it.
DECwriter would have been a luxury. ASR-33.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ebay and a serial USB adapter are you friends :).
Nope. 1. Decwriter terminals are very hard to come by! Haven't seen one on eBay in the years I've been searching. Look for yourself: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=decwriter&_sa... 2. Don't need a USB Serial Adapter with the PiDP-11. The PiDP-11 board will support up to 5 RS-232 ports on it: https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-11-connec...
I bought all the PDP-11 items listed on eBay around 15 years ago, so I was nodding in agreement. And yet: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Digital-DEC-PDP-11-05-with-RK05-dis...
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#29Similar in spirit, a recreation of the VAX-11/780: https://vxcompany.com/2016/02/13/a-working-vax-11780-revisit...
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ebay and a serial USB adapter are you friends :).
Nope. 1. Decwriter terminals are very hard to come by! Haven't seen one on eBay in the years I've been searching. Look for yourself: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=decwriter&_sa... 2. Don't need a USB Serial Adapter with the PiDP-11. The PiDP-11 board will support up to 5 RS-232 ports on it: https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-11-connec...
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