[HECnet] This is probably been asked already but....

[Gregg Levine]

On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 7:33 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 07/02/2012 07:05 PM, Gregg Levine wrote:
Software? Copies of everything that Al has on his bitsavers site.
Manuals certainly, stuff he created using those wonderful tools of
his. Hardware? Got me, I've got the SIMH stuff to emulate it, and
several examples of the E11 kit.

  Ahh.   I have lots of OS releases that aren't on bitsavers; contact me
if you're looking for something specific. (and, erm, not ancient)

But as for goals, I originally had an idea to have a PDP11, like your
11/53 there, respond to the strange stuff I build, along the lines of
(Adam) LINC-8 and the Straight that I saw at the same time we met and
your sidekick with his collection.

  Indeed, that sounds like fun.

  Who was my sidekick??

Ran out of space and time, for all of that. (I won't go into the
annoying problems of funding for my daft ideas.) Right now I'm in a
problematic NYC apartment that's short on space.

  Time to move!

When the "embedded PDP-11" idea surfaced in the responses earlier
today I realized that some of my ideas seemed to be doable but the
"how and why" aspect surfaced......

  Well "why" is easy:

    - because I can
    - because I want to

  The "how" part is rather more difficult, but I suspect you won't have
much trouble.

                          -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA


Hello!
Who was your "sidekick"? I can't recall his name, but he's the one
across from you on the right of the exhibit space who ran the Straight
8 system and its relatives.

It was time to move five years ago, but there are reasons... and more of them.

As for operating systems, can you, in your spare time present me a
list of them, off list?

Some time ago, John Wilson, confirmed for me that his E11 systems can
be configured to accept modules that would look to the PDP-11 OS
running as if it were talking to something specialized, and not
originally part of the regular PDP-11 series of modules. (Of course
that's my phrasing and how I heard or read about.) That's how I would
start, but I'm not sure if his program could be told to work as if it
were a J11 setup or any of the others.

I believe it might be possible to convince (or confuse) E11 that it is
actually one of those, and running something along the lines of the
appropriate R* OS from DEC,

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