Collaborate Disseminate
After we last saw [David Lovett] of [Usagi Electric], he was knee-deep in trying to fix a DEC PDP-11/03 power supply, which fortunately led to a fixed PSU and a …read more Continue reading Fixing A PDP-11/03 Power Supply Is Easy When You Understand It
If you’ve spent a few years around Hackaday, you’ve probably seen or heard of the DEC PDP-11 before. It was one of the great machines of the minicomputer era, back …read more Continue reading Check Out This PDP-11 Running Unix With A Teletype Terminal
After [David Lovett] of [Usagi Electric] was donated a few cars full of DEC PDP-11 minicomputers of various flavors and vintages, he passed on most of them to loving homes, …read more Continue reading PDP-11 Trouble With A Ruthless Power Supply Issue
The amateur radio community often gets stereotyped as a hobby with a minimum age requirement around 70, gatekeeping airwaves from those with less experience or simply ignoring unfamiliar beginners. While …read more Continue reading Long-Distance Gaming Over Packet Radio
Levy’s Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution is something like required reading for the hacker subculture, and Hackaday by extension. The first section of that book is all about early …read more Continue reading Reliving Second-Hand Nostalgia with the PDP-11
[RetroBytes] takes us on a whirlwind tour of the history of the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), its founder Ken Olsen, and during intermission builds up a working replica of the …read more Continue reading History of Digital Equipment Corp and Bonus PDP-11 Replica Build
Postpone your holiday shopping and spend some quality time with editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams as they sift through the week in Hackaday. Which programming language is the greenest? …read more Continue reading Hackaday Podcast Ep 146: Dueling Trackballs, Next Level BEAM Robot, Take Control of Your Bench, and Green Programming
[Lee Adamson] is no stranger to classic computers. He recently picked up a Heathkit H11A which, as you might remember, is actually a PDP-11 from DEC. Well, technically, it is …read more Continue reading A PDP 11 by Any Other Name: Heathkit H11 Teardown and Repair
C and C++ are powerful tools, but not everyone has the patience (or enough semicolons) to use them all the time. For a lot of us, the preference is for …read more Continue reading Run UNIX On Microcontrollers With PDP-11 Emulator
Like many Hackaday readers, [Steven Stallion] has had his eyes on the replica PDP-11 created by [Oscar Vermeulen] for some time now, and this summer he finally got the opportunity …read more Continue reading Upgrade Board Adds GPIO Pins To Your Replica PDP-11