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PDP-11/04 – Restoration

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Re: PDP-11/04 – Restoration

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Post by ChuckMcM »

nasalgoat wrote: post #2

Anyone who calls themselves a hacker needs to read this to calibrate their definition. This guy - he's a hacker.

Technically he's a DEC field engineer :-) But this is one of the reasons I really enjoy the older DEC gear, there is so much documentation on how it works (or is supposed to) that you can debug it to the chip level.

Re: PDP-11/04 – Restoration

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Post by al2o3cr »

ChuckMcM wrote: post #3
nasalgoat wrote: post #2

Anyone who calls themselves a hacker needs to read this to calibrate their definition. This guy - he's a hacker.

Technically he's a DEC field engineer :-) But this is one of the reasons I really enjoy the older DEC gear, there is so much documentation on how it works (or is supposed to) that you can debug it to the chip level.

DEC field engineer? That's handy, my waffle maker is broken. ;)

Re: PDP-11/04 – Restoration

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Post by aw3c2 »

Warning, 40 megabytes of images.

If the author reads this, consider turning those photograph PNGs into JPEG. There is no reason not to. Also resize them so they are not resized by the browser but shown 1:1.

Re: PDP-11/04 – Restoration

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Post by angersock »

al2o3cr wrote: post #5
ChuckMcM wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Technically he's a DEC field engineer :-) But this is one of the reasons I really enjoy the older DEC gear, there is so much documentation on how it works (or is supposed to) that you can debug it to the chip level.

DEC field engineer? That's handy, my waffle maker is broken. ;)

Be careful stripping the wires...
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