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Well, the superbios is on the card as was predicted. I used it to conduct a low-level format of the drive then used fdisk and format followed by sys...

I have used this PDP-11 cross-assembler for ages: https://github.com/Rhialto/macro11 and have had no problems even with very complex macros and...

I think we've all been guilty of attempting to try and use what fasteners we have around, rather than spend time and money on getting the _right_...

Also FYI, located here: https://www.ak6dn.com/PDP-11/RX02/ are a bunch of RX02 XXDPv2 bootable PDP-11 diagnostic disks.

I'm fairly good at mental arithmetic, and my life circumstances and hobbies are such that A. I rarely find myself needing to do math that I can't...

In DOS I use Procomm for this sort of thing.

I used the generic 4 banger calculator on my phone all the time. If I need something more substantial, I turn to...my phone. I have a 48G...

Why don't you try compiling natively instead of using some cross assembler?

I find the Windows calculators quite adequate for my needs and they're always at hand at the push of a hot key; the unit conversions are a nice...

Having said that, I see that the later model PETs changed the '145 to an 'LS145 so obviously the difference doesn't matter here.

There are times that I would be lost without my trusty HP16C. I've gone through a grand total of 3 sets of batteries since I purchased it back in...

Ah, so "Goldfinger" getting sucked out of a jet is just nonsense? I thought as much, though I did have a thing for the young Honor Blackman... ...

I don't trust the low-profile ones; I'm running a 3GHz Prescott and those buggers get hot fast. That Molex one is interesting , but it clearly...

Debit, 3-5-21 I like paper money and bills but it's becoming difficult to avoid doing electronic transactions. To live easier in my old...

I have a pair of 6 year old PLA figured on my desk that don't seem to have degraded. I printed some christmas light clips that I use each year,...

The games disks I believe are OS8, not RT11 format. The XXDP.RX2 disk is a PDP-11 bootable XXDP diagnostics disk, it is not RT11 format.

In my restorations of vintage equipment I often use stainless screws. The main supplier of small sized stainless screws in the USA is PSME ...

Kind of regretted not keeping that one, but other than the one I'm using, I have no other 478 boards. I'm predominantly AMD nowadays. Which...

I am not sure those disk images have the source code to the PDP P-code emulator though (although I haven't looked yet - so I may be speaking...

Don't feel too bad, I've done the same thing 3 times with this same post!

Initially I thought you were in Ontario, California but alas just a bit too far away. ;)

these came in today, spotted two NOS copper ones on eBay for $12 ea

You may be interested to know that someone filled a whole cargo van of stuff for only $500, according to one of the Facebook admins. And this guy...

The "low end" aluminum lga771 Intel heatsinks were beasts. They were big. I never used the very fastest chips my old dual processor board could run....

Intel heatsinks are kind of crappy. The only ones I liked at all were the ones for the high end C2Q had solid copper slugs and even those are barely...

Tried cleaning the fan, unfortunately no difference. How do I get to the backlight inverter and where did you get a replacement? Of course I...

If it's not much trouble, I like to improve on replacements. Stainless instead of zinc-plated fasteners, etc. Stainless is a lot cheaper than it...