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SteveJ

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I'm a long-time electronics & software dabbler. Vintage computers & TVs come under that category, although following a post-retirement house move & major clearout I have few such objects left at home. I've worked a lot with PDPs and VAXen in the past, and more recently I spent many years at Sun, so have a fair bit of experience in those areas. I do have a PDP-11/73 at home which I'm trying to get running after it's spent 25 years in a cupboard! Don't have much Sun stuff now, when I left I returned most of what I had back to the office but over the years I had 386i, 3/80, various SPARCstations (1+, 5, 10, 20, etc). Somewhere in my loft is an Amiga 2000, the first computer I bought new, and I still have a great fondness for ICL 1900-series systems & George 3 from my University days.

Steve
 
Greetings! Are you familiar with the Retro Man Cave (RMC) and This Week in Retro (TWiR) YouTube channels? Continually high-quality work by Neil with old computers and consoles, plus Dave and Duncan for TWiR. Neil has a museum in the UK as well, and the lower level has an arcade museum to boot. If I ever get to England, I'd love to visit them!
 
Welcome SteveJ,

I am only just down the road in Worcester - but the office is in Gloucester.

I have loads of PDP-11 bits here!

Dave
 
wumpus_byte said:
Greetings! Are you familiar with the Retro Man Cave (RMC) and This Week in Retro (TWiR) YouTube channels? Continually high-quality work by Neil with old computers and consoles, plus Dave and Duncan for TWiR. Neil has a museum in the UK as well, and the lower level has an arcade museum to boot. If I ever get to England, I'd love to visit them!
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Not seen those, I'm away for a few weeks but I'll have a look when I get back, thanks.
 
daver2 said:
Welcome SteveJ,

I am only just down the road in Worcester - but the office is in Gloucester.

I have loads of PDP-11 bits here!

Dave
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Hi Dave,
I'me pretty much equidistant from Worcester and Gloucester - I'm in Moreton-in-Marsh. I used to use PDP & VAX kit a lot professionally, always liked it, but this PDP is the only bit I actually have at home.
Steve
 
Welcome Steve - I’m a little west of you near Hereford. I pass through moreton-in-marsh on the train most weeks. I’m also reconnecting with my fondness for old kit, and the PDP-11 was one of the first I used.

Rob.
 
I used to travel to London on the train. Morton-in-Marsh is one of the stations I remember from those days...

Perhaps we have enough 'mass' in the Worcestershire area to have a 'PDP-11 get together' at some point in the future?

Dave
 
Welcome. I used to live in Morten-in-Mash about 15 years ago. Didn't know there were so many PDP-11s around. Closest thing I had at the time was a hernia inducing HP3000. Moved up north now for the cheap houses.

Love to get my hands on a PDP-11, but really need a basement or somewhere to put it.
 
ic2024 said:
Welcome Steve! Could you share a photo of your 11/73? What OS is it running?
mR_Slug: An alternative to digging a basement for an actual PDP-11 could be a replica such as https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-11 powered by a Raspberry Pi 'round the back... :)
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Hi. I can't share a photo just now, it's somewhat dismantled as I try to get it running again. Last time it booted, it was running Ultrix (2.1 I think) but I'd like to get it running RSX-11M.
 
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