[vcf-midatlantic] PDP-11 topics again.

[Dave McGuire]

On 3/20/22 21:57, Christian R. Fandt via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
> Yes! Keep the big iron traffic coming! Along with the other cool tech 
> stuff, of course.
> 
> Just beginning to 'wake up' a little bit from a long 8-to-9 year hobby 
> dormancy driven mostly from a busy engineering career and appreciate 
> reading such activity. So once I retire in late 2023 or so, I'll be 
> hungry for activity and may discuss some stuff on my PDP 11/73, PDP 
> 11/34A, couple of 11/23s, VAX11/730 (_lots_ of work needed, but still, 
> Ye True Olde Iron), DG NOVA 1200, IBM 9370-75 (S/370 on silicon, but 
> still big), smaller industrial machines: VMEbus & PC104 stuff, other fun 
> stuff in addition to vintage radios -my true passion. Lurking for now... 
> Just hope I have time for it all till I go 'blue screen' :-)

   Sounds great to me!  Note that we at LSSM did get a 9375 running, 
after much effort.  We don't have an OS installed on it, but it loads 
microcode, which is 90% of the battle.  If you don't have an operational 
console system, we can help with that part.

             -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA