Running an AI transformer on a PDP-11/44

Awesome presentation of an awesome machine, and awesome explanation of transformers 🙂

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Warren Toomey has started a fundraiser to support the running costs of The Unix History Society's (TUHS) infrastructure.

You can support TUHS via gofundme:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/the-unix-heritage-society-2026-care-and-feeding

#unix #retrocomputing #pdp11 #vax #tuhs

Donate to The Unix Heritage Society: 2026 Care and Feeding, organized by Warren Toomey

Help keep the Unix Heritage Society running by donating a small amount.… Warren Toomey needs your support for The Unix Heritage Society: 2026 Care and Feeding

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UNIX Fourth Edition on SIMH v3.12-5

UNIX v4 was officially released for the DEC PDP-11/45 computers on November 1973, when those computers were the only computers eligible for this version of UNIX. Since then, it was thought to …

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PDP-11 Lives In Literal Computer Desk Once More

When you think of iconic parings, your brain probably goes more to “cookies and milk” than “DEC and Ikea” but after watching [Dave]’s latest on Usagi Electric where he…

Hackaday
Training A Transformer With 1970s-era Technology

Although generative language models have found little widespread, profitable adoption outside of putting artists out of work and giving tech companies an easy scapegoat for cutting staff, their the…

Hackaday
Training A Transformer With 1970s-era Technology

Although generative language models have found little widespread, profitable adoption outside of putting artists out of work and giving tech companies an easy scapegoat for cutting staff, their the…

Hackaday

Spent some time this monday preparing the machine including installing 2.11BSD to the M2322 hard drive, as my DIY disk emulator showed some reliability issues at #why2025 . I'm still in the process of applying the latest updates to the system, as rebuilding kernels and part of the userland on a 1MB RAM, less than 1 MIPS system takes a fair bit of time.

Once I'm done updating the system, it will be at patch level 499 - the latest available for #211bsd , released on January 14th 2026!

If you want to play around with this system, visit the open day at RevSpace The Hague next saturday:
https://revspace.nl/OpenDag2026

I will be attaching a few physical terminals to it (including a VT55 and VT100!) as well as allowing telnet from the local network.

Besides this, if you do visit and want to trade PDP-11 parts, I have a large collection of mostly QBUS cards that I want to part with, and am looking for PDP-11/84 (PMI) and PDP-11/44 (EUB) memory boards as well as spare CPU cards for the /44.

#pdp11 #retrocomputing #unix #revspace #minicomputer

RE: https://hsnl.social/@revspace/116256653592044537

RevSpace, the hackerspace I'm a regular at, will have it's open day next saturday. I will be exhibiting my PDP-11/84 and possibly work on some other retro hardware as part of this.

Perhaps I'll attempt to repair my 11/44, or show off the VAX-11/750 I keep around there.

They do require visitors to sign up to help load balance the tours of the hackerspace, so check the link below.

#revspace #hackerspace #netherlands #thehague #retrocomputing #leiden #pdp11

Usando RSX-11M-PLUS V4.6 en la DEC PDP-11/84

https://fediverse.tv/w/hDSgfHPeXSaDsZZa8wzXG8

Usando RSX-11M-PLUS V4.6 en la DEC PDP-11/84

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