TU-58 in simh

Don North north at alum.mit.edu
Fri Apr 21 20:34:35 CDT 2017


On 4/21/2017 4:25 PM, Brian L. Stuart via cctalk wrote:
> I've seen suggestion that TU-58s are emulated in simh on
> PDP-11s.  However, I'm not seeing it in a show dev and my
> google-fu is failing me to find any info on how to use it.  Any
> pointers on how to boot from a TU-58 image?
>
> TIA,
> BLS
>
Using simh v4.0 from github, in the PDP11 simh ini file:

*set tdc enable**
**attach tdc0 tu58.dsk*

then assuming tu58.dsk is a bootable image:

*boot tdc0*

Only two units 0,1 are supported (just like a real dual drive) and the images 
must be 262,144 bytes in size (like a real tu58 cartridge).



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