PDP-11/44

I got this beauty from Geert Rolf, thanks Geert!!

This is now a dump of things I learn and need to keep; it should be organized later.

• Inventory
• Boards list / boards to look for
• Unibus, Uniprobe, Unibone…
• The Unibone I2C panel
• List of Unibus machines and their details

Related devices

• Board extenders
• The TU58 tape drive
• The RX02 floppy drive
• The DELUA ethernet controller (M7521)
• Unibus backplanes

Unibone tutorials and details

• Using the Unibone on a standalone backplane (without a PDP-11)
• Extending the Unibone CPU emulation
• Unibone disk image descriptions and details

Problems and fixes

• zmspc0 test failure

Operating systems

• rsx-11

Running diagnostics

• Creating a tu58 (or console) serial cable
• Using tu58 emulation to run the xxdp tests from tape images
• The XXDP Diagnostics
• Investigating and testing the H7140 PSU

First powerup with only 5 cards (M7094..M7098):

Useful tools:

• xxdpdir.pl: read DEC disk image files
• xxdpdir.pl –image=xxdp25.rl02 –directory to get a directory from that file
• Convert BIC files to straight binary

DEC related mailing lists and groups

• The Unibone mailing list
• The Vintage Computer Federation forii

Useful links

• DEC related 3D models
• Instruction set details
• Stackosaurus
• Vt320 Power supply repair
• https://www.pdp-11.de/index.php/2018/06/09/dec-pdp-11-34-m9312-with-new-bootproms/
• https://ak6dn.github.io/PDP-11/M9312/ Boot PROM files (also for the M7098 Unibus Interface)
• http://www.bluefeathertech.com/technoid/promfiles.html But with the PROM types noted too