[vcf-midatlantic] Received H11 - it works!

[Dave McGuire]

  Congrats!  I'm typing this on my phone so I'll be brief.  The standard
CSR address for a TU58 is 176500.  What second SLU do you have?

  Also, about  the "run"  light... Keep in mind that ODT, the prompt you're
interacting with, is actually written in microcode...not PDP-11 machine
language.  When you're at the ODT prompt, the "PDP-11" part isn't actually
in the run state,so it shouldn't be on until you actually begin execution
of some code you've loaded into memory.

                  -Dave

-- 
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA



On February 12, 2016 9:46:16 PM Richard Cini via vcf-midatlantic
<vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:

> All —
>
> Made some good progress today. I built the console cable and verified that
> the serial console board was properly jumpered. I put in all of the boards
> and turned it on and I saw the following on the console:
>
> 173002
> @
>
> Yea! Looks like it works. I connected it to PDP11GUI and ran a memory test
> and it seems to be fine. Interestingly, the RUN light only blinks at
> startup and no other time. Not sure what that means, but it’s running.
>
> I have a couple of things to do:
>
> *  I need to repair the side panels. I bought epoxy putty today and I’ll
> give that a try tomorrow.
> *  I’d like to remove the flat black paint from the metal front panel. Any
> recommendations? It looks like regular latex paint on top of the painted
> metal panel. I have a 3M “safe” (non-VOC) paint stripper that I was going
> to try.
> *  I have another SLU that I’d like to configure for use with the TU58
> emulator. Any advice on this?
>
> Thanks! Very exciting day indeed.
>
> Rich
>
> --
> Rich Cini
> Collector of Classic Computers
> Build Master and lead engineer, Altair32 Emulator
> http://www.classiccmp.org/cini
> http://www.classiccmp.org/altair32
>