There are some pretty good.videos on youtube about the 11/34.and RL02. Ray Fantini, who lives(d) neat Salisbury, MD.
Bill On Sun, Nov 27, 2022, 12:48 PM Devin D via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Greetings, > > Been a while since i have posted here. I have several PDP11 systems and > peripherals. I picked the original lot of a system 34 and related tech > in Miami FL a couple years back, and have since found several more pdp > 11/34 machines, and a pdp 11/05, 11/85, and others. > > It has been a goal to get the original PDP 11/34 system up and running, > however my job schedule kept getting in the way of my repair efforts, > making it easy to loose track of where i was at with the repair > progress. Thankfully i no longer work in a datacenter in a 10 hour > overnight shift, so it should be much easier to devote my time to this > repair. > > I am looking for advice to get the 11/34 system up and running. I have > started to put together a site to document my progress, to stay on track > with the repair effort. The system has 2 rl02 drives, and an attached 9 > track tape drive. I had worked to repair a power supply issue at first, > there was a problem with the main transformer, as well as one of the > smaller voltage "bricks". Thankfully i have many systems and i was just > able to swap in the needed working parts. > > So this is about as far as I got, I had a minimal config of the 11/34 > machine running, with not much more than the cpu, and a serial card to > talk to attached terminal. Power supply works, and i was able to toggle > in programs from the front panel to output characters to the attached > terminal. > > I believe the next logical step was to try and attach the rl02 > controllers, and see if the disk packs still have working installs of > RSX installed. I am not sure how to proceed with this though. > > I have mainly been following the advice of Paul Anderson, who has been a > godsend in regard to advice and guidance with getting these old systems > fixed up. I hope that if i keep a log of the repair effort on my site, > it will allow me to pick up where i leave off with the repair much more > easily. > > So that is the present condition of the machine. Good power supply, can > toggle in simple programs to print to the attached terminal. Any advice > on how to proceed is much appreciated. I Need to get an itemized list > of what hardware and cards i have on hand, and post that here so its > understood what i have. > > Thanks, > > Devin D. > > >
