Hardware guru needed!

Tim Shoppa shoppa at alph02.triumf.ca
Fri Mar 6 02:25:43 AEST 1998


> Those new machine is the
> main reason for joining to this list for me.
> It includes: KDF-11 CPU, RQDX3, DHQ11 8 line async option,
> TQK70 tape controller, 1.5Mbyte of memory etc. etc.
> I  also have the complete BSD2.9 source distribution
> in tar file and like to run all of the above.

Big problem: BSD2.9 doesn't support your disk (RQDX3) or tape (TQK70)
controllers.  I'd suggest BSD2.11, but it doesn't run on your CPU.

> Currently I've started KDF11 and it seems to be ok.
> Problems are: It has lots of switches (the same for MSV-11 boards and
> RQDX3 and all of that) and have very little docs about
> how to set it correctly.

The best place to ask about these things would be the usenet newsgroup
vmsnet.pdp-11.

Tim.

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