Indeed. I had it running 30 years ago, it was my RX01 floppy pdp11.
Unfortunately I think I removed, gave away, or something-ed one of the
Plessy core memory boards. Which means I can't just boot it and continue
where I left off (I seem to recall it ran Dungeon off RX01's).
The 11/05 has memory boards as follows:
M930/H214 (begin terminator, core plane)
G110
G231
G231
G110
Unibus jumper/H214 (end of line)
It does not have the KW11 line time clock or the weird serial port that
could be run off the CPU. Instead a normal boring DL11.
So 2 MM11-L's for 16kw of memory. Why do I have an extra H216 core board
lying around. Anyone got an extra 4k of memory lying around?
Hm. I guess I could put my DA11-F Unibus window in there and jumper it
so that a 4k window of memory on the 11/24 appears on the 11/05. That
could work, unless someone has a spare 4/8kw of core they don't need.
The Plessy board is stuck in there tight with no easy way to remove. It
says its an 8k*16 PM1105. Crap, it might be jumpered for the last 8k.
But that does mean I swapped a core board. You know I might have traded
it to MG in return for a pair of Sun386i's for CrystelCom's mail and DNS
servers. Maybe if he still has it I can trade it for this 216 core plane
if he just wants one on his wall.
CZ
On 10/19/2020 8:25 PM, Guy Sotomayor wrote:
On Mon, 2020-10-19 at 20:20 -0400, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote:
won't work. Maybe I'll just drag out the 11/05 and get that working
first, it's got a nice front panel that doesn't lock up often :-)
The 11/05 was the first 11 that I repaired and got working. You should
note that the 11/05's front panel is driven by the uCode of the CPU.
It's connection to the CPU is through a "serial" protocol (it's been
too long...I think it's just a big shift register) to keep the pin
count (e.g. cost) low.
TTFN - Guy
