Hardware Documentation - Machines Digital Equipment Corporation

Here are some links to information about Digital Equipment Corporation computers. Some attempt has been made to group them by machine type, but there is much overlap.

General

• NetBSD/alpha, NetBSD/pmax, and NetBSD/vax homepages.

• Digital Equipment Corporation chips

  NetBSD "Hardware Documentation" page listing information on DEC chips.

• LK201 Keyboard Interface

  Information compiled by Dan McMahill.

• comp.sys.dec FAQs

  Generally VMS, Ultrix, and DU, but some hardware info.

Alpha

• Current workstation, current server, discontinued workstation, and discontinued server details.

  Specifications for various alpha systems. Mainly sales orientated.

DECstation (MIPS)

• DEC DECstation 2100/3100 Web Page

  Including basic specs, CPU board lists, interface pinouts, and more.

• DEC hardware documentation

  Including technical specifications and maintenance manuals.

VAX

• VAX hardware reference

  List of VAX hardware specifications and related information.

• VMS CPU Model Summary

  A summary of all VAX & Alpha CPU processors circa 1993.

• James Lothian's VAX 11/750 hardware FAQ

  Invaluable to the 11/750 owner.

• NetBSD/VAX FAQ

  Maintained by Gunnar Helliesen. (Hosted on a MicroVAX II running NetBSD).

• Edward Austin's MicroVAX/VAXstation FAQ

  A wealth of information and specs for MicroVAX and VAXstations.

• PDP 11 micronotes

  Many detailed micronotes on the PDP11, uVAX I and II, and Q-bus.

• VAX systems information

  Specifications for various VAX Systems.

• Q-bus

  One of the busses used in VAXs, PDP11s and some DECstation.

• A dual processor VAX 11/780

  Describes the design of a dual processor VAX 11/780 built in 1981 at the Purdue University Electrical Engineering School.

• hungarian PDP11/VAX clones

  Called "TPA", "stored-program analyzer"

PDP (PDP/11 PDP/8 etc)

• DEC board database

  Maintained by Dave McGuire. Primarily PDP-11 boards, though VAX information being added...

• PDP Unix Preservation Society

  Information, maillists, simulators and disk images for v5, v6 and v7.

• Misc PDP11 hardware details

  Also contains useful Q-bus related information.

• Doug Jones' PDP-8 page

  Links to FAQs, programmers reference material, hardware references, and odds and ends including emulators.

• The XKL TOAD-1

  The latest, fastest, PDP10 clone in the world.

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