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Booting a PDP-11/34A to Unix V6


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Booting a PDP-11/34A to Unix V6 from an RL01 disk, then some minimal interaction on a VT-100 terminal.

In 2019 I had a PDP-11/34A, RL01 disk drive, and VT-100 terminal in my office at work. A student and I managed to get Unix V6 booting on it. This little wordless vignette shows the boot sequence in real-time, plus a small amount of interaction at the prompt. Notice that I forget that V6 used chdir and type cd instead!

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