Re: new toy

From: Didier Morandi (no_at_spam.com)
Date: 10/22/03

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    Capitan Mutanda wrote:

    > Hello all!
    >
    > I'm quite happy because this weekend I got hold of my first REAL
    > PDP. It is a 34a with 2 RK05 and a RX01 two boxes of orange manuals
    > zillions of cables.

    Congrats. Welcome to the Club.

    > I also got hold of some tapes; one is an original
    > DEC tape labled RSX-11M-PLUS V4.0 MT:1600 BRUSYS STANDALONE COPY SYSTEM
    > ME50629 BB-J083F-BC. It is still in a sealed bag.

    This is the operating system image. BRUSYS is the image format used to
    build the tape. Without a tape reader, it is a bit useless I'm afraid.

    > Can this tape be
    > used to install RSX? But how? I don't have a tape on my 11/34.

    Well, my best suggestion would be for you to find out who could have a
    PDP with an RK drive and a TA77, TA78, TU80 or such, and build a RSX11M+
    system on one of your disks, then go back home and boot the RK05.

    > Is there
    > some way I can boot via network? I can read the tape from my uVax II

    AFAIK, no. PDP 11/23s can remote boot via a downloaded bootable image,
    but it is a very different hardware.

    > All suggestions to get my new toy running are well accepted.

    Try to find a similar config, have your system disk built (takes time as
    it is written in MACRO-11 and you have to go through dozen of questions
    via a SYSGEN utility, then compile the OS, then link, then boot).

    All the above from to of my (getting old) head, as I left PDP land in
    1982, when I installed my first VAX 11-750 at Dassault Aircrafts :-)

    D. 

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