11/44 is alive, as is the 11/34!

[Don North]

Tom Uban wrote:
> That is great news Jay! FWIW, the 11/44 can run BSD 2.9 (or possibly
> 2.10, were there any later revs?)...
>
> --tom
>
> Jay West wrote:
>> The 11/44 has come to life. It passed all the diags I threw at it, plus
>> booted RT11. I did that on an RL02 and would like to switch that system
>> to an RA81. Once the RA81 is in place, that system is done. But at least
>> the cpu is known working

2.11BSD is the latest, which also happens to support TCP/IP, so all you need
to add to your 11/44 is a DELUA or DEUNA and you get get it on the internet.
Of course another megabyte or two of memory would help too (IIRC you said
earlier that your 11/44 had only 1MB).

I put up a network-ready 2.11BSD configuration that I use on my real 11/44
(and also runs on SIMH) at http://www.AK6DN.com/PDP-11/2.11BSD/
Probably the biggest hurdle would be getting it onto some disk media; it's
a little big for RL02s. The current config uses a 1GB RA72 disk image, but
the total occupied storage is probably less than 100MB.

Don North