PiDP11/70: RaspberryPi setup

Setting up the RaspberryPi I’ve got a 1st gen RaspberryPi which I wasn’t sure would be beefy enough. Surely running SimH with an old BSD or VAX OS won’t be straining the Pi much, but I’d like to use is as well for other tasks like a media player or home automation in the future. Also that model lacks wifi and I’d like to keep the number of cables to the PiDP11/70 to a minimum;

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PiDP11/70: What is it anyway

This is SO COOL I was reading the January issue of MagPi magasine and found out about this amazing project https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-11 I haven’t done much electronics since college (that’s a while back) but I’ve been dying to restart and also eventually become a proper Maker. This looks like a fun and cool project to get my hands dirty. I’ve sent an email to Oscar Vermeulen, the maker of the kit, to request one

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