• PDP11HackPlus

    PDP11 Hack+ Bus display

    Well I got the PCB and assembled it, and first off when I powered the board up it caused my PSU to go into over current protection. After a little investigation I realised I had grounded the left and right dots, which are not logic inputs like the rest of the chip for some reason, they are the cathodes of the LEDs. So I was basically putting a whole bunch of LEDs between 5V and 0V, oops. So having fixed that, it does indeed light up. The next problem is that I forgot to include the enable line for the memory so that it only displays memory data/addresses rather than…