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In article <10923@plains.NoDak.edu> blee@plains.NoDak.edu (Blaine Lee) writes:
>
>I was hoping someone has heard of a little box digital made about eight
>years ago, the PDT-11.  I received one from a GM dealer that used it for
>comunications with GM's main computers.  It is 18 inches high, 30 inches
>deep, and about 18 inches wide, it has two eight inch drives on front, and
>I believe I found one or two 8085's in it.  
>
>Is this a common machine, or a special item made for GM?  Does anyone have
>software for it?  I do have the software that came with it, but all that is
>just some very special stuff for GM.
>
>(yes GM means General Motors.)
>


The PDT11 was a series of machines, all based on the LSI 11 chipset 
(11/03).   There was the PDT11/150 (that you have), the PDT11/130 with 
two DECtape TU58's, the PDT11/110 with no storage devices.  

The latter two were built into VT100 cases with the VT as the console device.

The PDT was built for a number of uses, terminal concentrator, workstation...

I heard the Post Office was looking for a machine like them to automate
the Postal Service - but that they didn't go with the DEC box.
The PDT was used by many car dealers.

It does run DEC RT11 software (including the current V5...)

DEC had a ton of them in a warehouse and sold them to employees (encluding
me)for PC use.  They're a lot of fun.  RT11 is a great O/S and PDT's can do
more in 64k of memory than MS-DOS can in 640.

Hope this helps.

Bill
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