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Re:PDP-11 Instructional Tape (1977) [video] by mrbill on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @03:15AM (#15070353)
The DEC system handbooks, which they gave out for free, were incredibly thorough and informative. Here's a link to the PDP-11 ones on Bitsavers:

http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/dec/pdp11/handbooks/

It's harder nowdays to get your hands on a LSI-based PDP-11 system than it was in say, 2000 or so - but simh lets you emulate just about anything you might want, with less space and power usage.

Here's the student workbook to go along with the video:

http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/dec/pdp11/Introductio...

I kick myself every now and then for getting rid of the garage full of PDP and VAX stuff when I moved from Austin to Houston twelve years ago.

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Re:PDP-11 Instructional Tape (1977) [video] by martyvis on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @05:01AM (#15070728)
Anyone seen the Digital Networking Product catalogues from the late 80's. With thin Ethernet and DELNIs and DECSTAs the in thing and lots of solution drawings using cool graphic icons, it made it all look like Knex. Would love to see them again.
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