HOWTO: Boot your PDP-11/34
The dual-rack PDP-11/34 is on static display at my office, so I’ve written a quick guide on booting RT-11 and getting Colossal Cave Adventure compiled from FORTRAN sources.
Tag retrocomputing
PDP-11/34 says hello from 1978
We rescued two PDP-11/34 computers and their associated equipment from a storage unit in the Bronx and have been working on getting them running again. The computing system included multiple RK05 hard drives, two RL02 decpack drives, a TU11 tape…
30th Anniversary Macintosh
It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that an engineer in possession of an antique computer must be in want of hacking it. Last year I reverse engineered the Easter Egg photographs from a Mac SE that I found on the…