PDP-11/84

From Computer History Wiki
Revision as of 16:20, 4 May 2011 by Neozeed (talk | contribs)
Jump to: navigation, search
PDP11-84.JPG

hampage.hu

PDP-11/84

Quoting: Introduced in 1988. Based on the J-11 chip, DEC originally wanted the clock speed to be 20MHz, but it couldn't be done on time, so the actual speed was 18MHz. It was the fastest CPU of the PDP-11's anyhow. The high-end configuration had 4MB RAM on PMI (Private Memory Interconnect) and a floating-point accelerator.

The UNIBUS-based PDP-11/84 was for those customers, who wanted more I/O throughput or had some legacy equipment: it was the same (qbus) CPU board with a KTJ-11B UNIBUS adapter.

The box on the picture to the left is a BA123 which was a popular enclosure for qbus machines. Apart from the 12x4-slot qbus backplane, it had five slots for storage units, e.g. room for two or three harddisks, a tape drive (TK50 here) and floppy.