Last year I picked up some documentation on the PDP16 family. Does anyone have any hardware, docs, software or knowledge on it?
I have not had much time to look at it since I got it, and want to see how it compares to my PDP14 items. On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 5:49 PM, Ethan Dicks <ethan.di...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 3:18 PM, Jerry Weiss <j...@ieee.org> wrote: > > > >> On Jan 17, 2017, at 12:58 PM, Alan Frisbie <flash...@flying-disk.com> > wrote: > >> I just joined this list, so I'm not sure which of the items I own > >> would be considered by this group to be rare or unusual, but here > >> goes… > >> > > Hi Alan, > > > > Nice to see you on the list. If memory serves me correctly, you > presented > > a talk on (very) high speed data acquisition at DECUS a few decades ago. > > I might have been in the audience for that talk... > > >> DEC RKV11D Q-Bus controller for RK05 disks (on my LSI-11/73 system) > >> Originally, it only supported 16-bit addressing, but I added the > >> chip and wires to make it support 18-bit addressing. I have never > >> even heard of another of these controllers, so I assume it is rare. > > Cool. Is that mod documented (on-line, that is... not just on some > 35-year-old paper)? I have an RKV11D that I've used under RT-11 with > 16-bit memory... love to put it on a larger machine. > > Good luck on posting your stuff. I'm far away so I'm not likely to be > interested in anything huge and heavy, but I'll take a peek. > > Cheers, > > -ethan >