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I was thinking of the 11/03, not 11/23. And the disks were in a separate enclosure, most of the dishwasher size box was empty air. Yes, the boards in the LSI
by mark-r 6y ago
I was thinking of the 11/03, not 11/23. And the disks were in a separate enclosure, most of the dishwasher size box was empty air. Yes, the boards in the LSI series were much smaller than the equivalent PDP boards - they had a name for the form factor but I can't remember what it was.
Of course I may be misremembering things, this was 40 years ago.
- mark-r 6y agoCuriosity got the better of me, and I decided to look it up on Wikipedia. The board form factor itself didn't have a name, but it was tied to the bus that was used. The PDP-11s used the Unibus, and the LSI-11 and its variants used the Q-bus. They also have a picture of the 11/03, and it's indeed much smaller than I remember. Perhaps I was thinking of the 11/23.