saipan59
Experienced Member
I haven't touched my DEC stuff in a couple of years, but now getting back to it again.
In the picture below:
LSI-11, 32KW RAM, DLV11-J.
The backplane is from a VT-103. The power supply is from a Rainbow.
The console goes to a simple level converter (from Sparkfun), which then goes to a T.I. MSP430FR5994 eval board, which then goes to my PC via USB.
The TI board includes a micro-SD card socket. I wrote an app for the TI board that is like an "intelligent terminal emulator", in combination with Putty running on my PC. The app lets me (for example) load a serial bootloader via ODT, then load/unload images in/out of RAM.
I have a stand-alone image of Forth working on the setup. The bootloader loads in about 5 seconds (via ODT), the Forth image loads in 10 seconds (in binary; it is 5.5KB). The images are stored on the SD card, or can be dumped to Putty.
Pete
In the picture below:
LSI-11, 32KW RAM, DLV11-J.
The backplane is from a VT-103. The power supply is from a Rainbow.
The console goes to a simple level converter (from Sparkfun), which then goes to a T.I. MSP430FR5994 eval board, which then goes to my PC via USB.
The TI board includes a micro-SD card socket. I wrote an app for the TI board that is like an "intelligent terminal emulator", in combination with Putty running on my PC. The app lets me (for example) load a serial bootloader via ODT, then load/unload images in/out of RAM.
I have a stand-alone image of Forth working on the setup. The bootloader loads in about 5 seconds (via ODT), the Forth image loads in 10 seconds (in binary; it is 5.5KB). The images are stored on the SD card, or can be dumped to Putty.
Pete
