Christoffer
Experienced Member
Hi! I've been pondering some questions in the last months of making my 11/23 do stuff. And while getting a FDD running looks promising, I still have to punch in a bootloader via terminal or PDP11GUI. "I have no ROM, and I must boot", as Harlan Ellison wrote.
Now, the "original" solution would be a BDV11 card, with 18 2716 sockets for boot memory, but they're pretty rare, and when they pop up, they're not cheap. Are there any other bootable ROM cards to look for? DEC or otherwise?
I've also thought about getting a QBUS wire-wrap card and make one myself, but it might be a lot of trouble.
The other thing is general porpoise IO. The PDP11's (especially the LSI systems) was and is very very broadly used in the industry/industrial control kinda scene. Are there general porpose boards for I/O, like, non-specific boards for driving relays, sensors, etc.? It'd make sense, but there's a bit less structure in the info about third-party pdp11 cards.
Cheers
Now, the "original" solution would be a BDV11 card, with 18 2716 sockets for boot memory, but they're pretty rare, and when they pop up, they're not cheap. Are there any other bootable ROM cards to look for? DEC or otherwise?
I've also thought about getting a QBUS wire-wrap card and make one myself, but it might be a lot of trouble.
The other thing is general porpoise IO. The PDP11's (especially the LSI systems) was and is very very broadly used in the industry/industrial control kinda scene. Are there general porpose boards for I/O, like, non-specific boards for driving relays, sensors, etc.? It'd make sense, but there's a bit less structure in the info about third-party pdp11 cards.
Cheers