Booting up a PDP-11/34...

Booting up a PDP-11/34...  Well, here's a blast from the past!  When I was just getting started programming computers, in the mid-'70s, these DEC machines were what I lusted after.  I got to play with them a few times on consulting jobs, but their price tag put them way out of my reach.  I had to settle for owning microcomputers (and even they were a big strain on my tiny purchasing power).  At the time, that felt like settling for fourth or fifth-best.  The notion that microcomputers would come to dominate computing never occurred to me at the time – I thought of them then as simple, small, and unpowerful cousins of the real computers...