PDP11 (10)

Paula

What's been happening?

Well I failed at posting once a month, my bad. A lot has been going on since March. I've been talking to the new owners of Modal Electronics on and off, since September, and I just stepped away from it. My reasons? There are a…

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Paula

Time flies

It's been a hectic few weeks, well, month. My mood has been all over the place, and generally trending down. But I have been doing some bits and bobs. I've been working on a couple of displays, something retro styled. I wanted to do something…

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Paula

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…

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Paula

PDP/11 Hack+

I'm really pleased to say that over the holiday I managed to get some time and built up my RAM/ROM/Text Display PCB for my DCJ11 system. First power up (just RAM) worked, I could write and read from the memory, YAY! Next up I added…

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Paula

It's ALIVE!

Well, the new version of the DCJ-11 board worked!!! Here you can see some output from the ODT console (this is me typing "R0/" and it returning the value in octal for that register). you can also inspect the memory, but as it has no…

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Paula

PDP11 Hack plus V2

It's been a while, life has been difficult of late for a number of reasons which I won't go into. However I'm slowly getting my electronics Mojo back, so I've been working on the PDP11-Hack board With the previous version I think I tried to…

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