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A Compaq Plus laying around here for several years powered on but had never booted. I connected a Gotek w Flashfloppy to it. The jumpers are set as for any PC and FF.cfg the same. It will not boot a 1.44mb image of DOS but it DID BOOT a 720K image of the Compaq Setup software from Archive.org...

Bought a DM3 off auction with display and keyboard. Seller said it lived in a closet at his office for years. No floppies, etc, dusty with a missing keycap or two. I’m a sucker for PDP-8’s though shipping a CRT sounds terrible. Shows up on my front doorstep and the CRT is in thick bubblewrap...

In 1990 I moved to a corporate job in the city and was faced with a IBM PC running a terminal program and DEC “All-In-One” desktop software. Does anyone remember that? It combined word processing and email messaging and even a spreadsheet if I remember correctly. Coming from a PC network...

1974 or ‘75 - As a Senior in Electrical Engineering I was permitted to join a graduate class in Computer Interfacing. We studied digital logic and the instruction set of the PDP8/E (?) - do not remember. We were assigned a task to design and construct an interface to connect a teletype or...

Finally got my Gotek with Flashfloppy to boot the PDP. The computer is a Micro-PDP11/23+ in a BA-23 case with M8189, M8067, and M8639-YA (an RQDX1). There is no hard drive but there is an RX-50 dual floppy. I've booted RT-11 in the past from a floppy and over the second serial line with the...

I am curious which DEC PDP-11 CPU boards lend themselves to be using stand-alone. That is, have ROM, a bit of RAM, and serial ports on the same board. What are my choices?