Usagi Electric | The PDP-11/83 Boots! @UsagiElectric | Uploaded April 2023 | Updated October 2024, 15 hours ago.
I realized the other day that I had enough components to build something like five PDP-11s, but I’ve never actually seen a working PDP-11 before in my life. That’s ludicrous! Let’s fix it. In this episode, we pull out the VaxStation tower with the H9278 backplane and get it all cleaned up and ready for the 11/83 CPU and PMI memory cards. Then, we plug it all in and give it a whirl!

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Intro Music adapted from:
Artist: The Runaway Five
Title: The Shinra Shuffle
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Chapters
0:00 Introduction
1:10 The plan
2:59 Cleaning and replacing RIFAs
8:25 Boot attempt #1
9:47 Boot attempt #2
11:22 Boot attempt #3
12:00 Boot attempt #4 (Success!)
14:54 Booting with 4MB of memory
16:36 What’s next?
19:03 Bunny!