Building a PDP11/70. These were among the computers that made the first network connections.
Cannot wait to network and compute how it was originally intended!
#vintagecomputing #infrastructuralista
(With the amazing kit by:
obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/p… )
Look at all those beautiful components!
Soldered GPIO connector on the wrong side of the board 😭😭
Guess this will be a crash course in desoldering.
It took me four hours, but it worked!
Now putting GPIO holder back together and resolder it on the other side 🤓🤣
I never thought I'd be able to concentrate on something so small for so long !
Most lights are working!
Correction: ALL LIGHTS ARE WORKING !
Test #1 :: SUCCESS
Dancing lights!!
Test #2 :: SUCCESS
Assembled!
That's it for today. Tomorrow resoldering of some buttons and then some old school networking!
🤓😴💤
🤩😍🤩😍🤩😍🤩😍🤩😍🤩😍🤩😍🤩
Resoldered all flip buttons and some loose connectors.
Put back together. Now everything is working.
Shall I load the DECnet or TCP/IP protocol stack?
'for the next step, transform the octal value to a binary value'
🤣🤣🤣
Who is the computer here, you or me?
What OS should my PDP11/7 run?
🤣🤣🤣 already ran into a Y2K problem 🤣🤣🤣
Reverse knight rider, but as bootloader
There. Is. A. Live. Network. Of. DECnet. users.
#HECnet
update.uu.se/~bqt/hecnet.ht…
I ❤️ the Internet
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