Newsletter & Parts tester

[oscarv]

All,

With apologies for not being online as much as I should:

the latest 'Newsletter' with a PiDP-11 section, here:

https://obsolescence.dev/obsolescence-newsletter-may-2026.html

It drives me nuts that the biggest PDP-11 news reached me just after I finished sending out the newsletter: the Saturn Calc/Word/Graph suite is now available for RSX-11M+. So here is the link to that: http://rsx11m.com/w/index.php?title=Category:Saturn . See the screen shots to see why this is Big News. You can cancel the annual subscription to MS Office 365 now.

Kits now come with a little tester board (always remove the Pi before using it!), which can be helpful when a LED or switch does not work after building the kit. It's been there for a while, but I forgot to link to it :-)

https://obsolescence.dev/pidp-parts-tester.html

Also, the above page contains links to the Kicad project files. Links to them sloshed around the Obsolescence site and the Google Groups, now they are all in one place.

As always, feedback is very welcome. I might be a bit slow to respond, but that is not due to a lack of interest in feedback!

Kind regards,

Oscar.