PiDP-11 Released to Beta Testers

cptnapalm writes: Oscar Vermeulen's PiDP-11 front panel, modeling a PDP-11/70 in all its colorful glory, has been released to beta testers. This is Mr. Vermeulen's second DEC front panel; his PiDP-8 was released a few years ago. The PiDP-11 panel is designed to work with a Raspberry Pi running simh or, possibly, a FPGA implementation of the Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-11. The PDP-11 minicomputer was a tremendous success in its day. UNIX and later BSD were developed on the PDP-11, including both the creation of the C language, the pipe concept and the text editor vi. In addition to the front panel with its switches and blinkenlights, also included is a prototyping area for the possibility of adding new hardware.