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Obsolescence Guaranteed

posted by Fnord666 on Friday May 18 2018, @03:41PM   Printer-friendly
from the panels-from-the-past dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for SoyCow3941

The PiDP-11 is a modern replica of the PDP-11/70.

Introduced in 1973, the 11/70 was top of the line in the famed PDP-11 range, and the very last system with a proper front panel. Tragically, DEC field service often removed the front panel in a later upgrade, leaving us staring at dull blank panels ever since..

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The PiDP-11 wants to bring back the experience of PDP-11 Blinkenlights, with its pretty 1970s Magenta/Red color scheme. On a more modest (living room compatible) scale 6:10, with faithfully reproduced case and switches.

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The tabs above describe the PiDP in more detail. The web already contains lots of PDP-11 information, so these pages just focus on the practical PiDP aspects: how to build, operate and possibly hack the PiDP-11. The 'why' question will not be addressed here, only fools would think that PDP-11s are somehow obsolete.

Source: http://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-11

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  • (Score: 4, Touché) by Unixnut on Friday May 18 2018, @04:07PM (5 children)

    by Unixnut (5779) on Friday May 18 2018, @04:07PM (#681227)

    > Source: http://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-11 [wixsite.com]

    The irony, an article about obsolescence leading me to a "website" which is nothing but a blank page unless you fully enable javascript. Which when you do, just shows a standard website which could have been coded in plain HTML without any JS at all.

    "Progress", eh?

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 18 2018, @05:04PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 18 2018, @05:04PM (#681262)

    Yeah, it's pretty awful.

    At least some of the content is there though, just hidden by styles (I guess the scripts restyle the page?). So if you disable styles as well (or use a text-mode browser which doesn't support styles) then there is at least _something_ to read.

  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 18 2018, @05:06PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 18 2018, @05:06PM (#681267)

    The page looks perfect in Lynx.

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Arik on Friday May 18 2018, @07:13PM (1 child)

    by Arik (4543) on Friday May 18 2018, @07:13PM (#681325) Journal
    As another noted, the content *is* in the source code and can be made visible by disabling styles.

    Annnd it turns out this is just a case for a raspberry pi.

    <raspberry>
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    • (Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Friday May 18 2018, @08:48PM

      by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us (6553) on Friday May 18 2018, @08:48PM (#681380) Journal

      A $250 case for a Raspberry Pi. Although admittedly one that causes me to salivate a bit, just like $660 for a replica Altair 8800.

      But for those prices.... right now eBay is offering a Model III TRS-80 case for $169. And even that is too much for me but is the nostalgic choice I'd buy to casemod something from.

      Looked cool, anyway.

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  • (Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Friday May 18 2018, @08:46PM

    by wonkey_monkey (279) on Friday May 18 2018, @08:46PM (#681378) Homepage

    It works fine in Lynx.

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