This PDP-11 Power Supply Defeated Me
My PDP-11 story is a weird one. I found myself with too many PDPs, so I had to thin the herd, which left me without a running PDP-11. The goal for today was to fix that by bringing up a PDP-11/23, but the power supply had other plans. After a full week of troubleshooting, I emerged from the room defeated. But just what went wrong? Well, let’s dive in and find out!
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Intro Music adapted from:
Artist: The Runaway Five
Title: The Shinra Shuffle
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Chapters
0:00 My PDP/DEC Story
3:54 What problem am I trying to solve here?
5:07 The PDP-11/23 CPU and Memory cards
6:39 The PDP-11/03 AA Backplane and PSU
8:22 Let’s clean this thing up first
11:17 First test
14:05 Second test
14:42 Nothing is ever easy…
17:30 Third test
18:29 Why is this going so poorly for us?
24:07 Fourth test
26:05 “I’m calling it, time of death, probably 30 years ago.”
29:22 Puppycat!