PDP-11 - Peripherals

Peripherals

A wide range of peripherals were available; some of them were also used in other DEC systems like the PDP-8 or PDP-10. The following are some of the more common PDP-11 peripherals.

  • CR11 — punched card reader
  • LA30/LA36 — DECwriter dot-matrix printing keyboard terminal
  • LP11 — high speed line printer
  • PC11 — high speed papertape reader/punch
  • RA,RD series — fixed platter hard disk
  • RK series — hard disk with exchangeable platter
  • RL01/RL02 — hard disk with exchangeable platter
  • RM,RP series — exchangeable multi-platter hard disk
  • RX01/RX02 — 8 inch floppy disk
  • TU11 — 9 track tape drive
  • TU56 — DECtape block-addressed tape system
  • VT05/VT50/VT52/VT100 — video display terminal

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