[GreenKeys] KSR-33 Updates

[Christian Gauger-Cosgrove]

Hello everyone, just wanted to give an update on my KSR-33.

Well, after some very through cleaning ("Hi, can I borrow some
dimethylbenzene?"*) my KSR-33 lives. However, it is no longer my
KSR-33.

Since my other great hobby - vintage computing/retrocomputing - takes
precedence over my teletype hobby, I ended up trading my KSR-33 for a
VT-103 (or PDT-11/110), and a DSD880/8 hard disk/8" diskette drive.
Before flames ensue for trading a KSR-33 for a glass TTY, I'd like to
point out the VT-103 (or PDT-11/110) is not a simple glass TTY, it's
actually a fully functional (albeit small) QBUS PDP-11** system
crammed into the case of a VT-100 dumb term. The DSD880/8 is currently
affixed to my standalone PDP-11/23.

So, now I'm currently out of a TTY, quite annoying. Though at least
someone else can have fun bringing up the machine.


Cheers all,
Christian







* -- I did not really clean my teletype with dimethylbenzene. That was
a joke, because I'm a chemistry student and chemistry jokes are
funny/lame. (Heh.)
** -- It's a PDP-11/03 (LSI-11/2 CPU; no EIS/FIS option), currently
has a 256KB National Semiconductor RAM board installed (since it's an
11/03 it can't see more then 64KB though, and of course, the top 8KB
of RAM is I/O map, so it's only really 56KB), a DLV11-J quad serial
line unit (four simple serial ports, at 9600 bps, SLU0 connected to a
virtual TU58 on my PC, SLU1 and SLU2 empty, SLU3 jumpered as console
and connected the VT-100 board), and a BDV11-YA bootstrap/terminator
board. I still have space for three more dual modules, or one quad and
one dual.