4 Aug
2023
4 Aug
'23
7:38 p.m.
Chris,
Thanks for your kind offer to re-image the third floppy!
May I politely repeat Mattis' request to scan the disk labels?
I'm especially interested in the DEC order numbers (like "BL-XXXXX-XX")
that are printed on them - I use them as the primary key in my DECdoc
database.
The floppy names (e.g. "ROOT #1") are very useful/important sometimes, too.
Thank you again for your understanding and willingness to help!
Ulli
Am Fr., 4. Aug. 2023 um 20:49 Uhr schrieb Christopher Zach via cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>gt;:
Thank you I will rescan the third disk.
On August 4, 2023 12:33:31 PM EDT, "Hans-Ulrich Hölscher via cctalk" <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
I did some testing on the image sets using simh.
I had to prepare the images first using lbn2rx50
<http://www.chdickman.com/pdp11/>, because simh expects them to be in
logical order.
Results:
ULTRIX-11 V3.0: All images good
MicroRSTS V2.1: The third image throws an error:
*sim> ATT RQ2 RSTS21-3.RX5%SIM-INFO: RQ2: 'RSTS21-3.RX5' Contains a RSTS
File system%SIM-INFO: RQ2: Pack ID: MICR3 Revision Level: 1.2 Pack
Clustersize: 1%SIM-INFO: RQ2: Last Unallocated Sector In File System:
799sim> c?Error opening Backup set?Device hung or write lockedMount volume
3 on device _DU2:Press RETURN when ready:*
MicroRSX V2.1: Have not found out yet which one of the images is the one
to
start with. Is the image set complete?
I thought that RSX4-I.IMG <https://www.crystel.com/pdp/os/RSX4-I.IMG> was
the one (with an I instead of a 1), but all I got was:
*Trap stack push abort, PC: 000014 (000040)*
Maybe that image is bad, too ...
Ulli
Am Do., 27. Juli 2023 um 00:55 Uhr schrieb Chris Zach via cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>gt;:
> Ok, files are up on https://www.crystel.com/pdp/os and
> https://www.crystel.com/pro350
>
> MicroRSX, Ultrix11, MicroRSTS/E, and um spss
>
> On 7/26/2023 1:51 PM, Mark Matlock via cctalk wrote:
> > Chris,
> > I would be interested in getting a copy of the SSPS/X software for
> POS. I have a manual for SPSS/11 and would love to try to get the
software
> running under RSX11M+ if possible.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mark
> >
> >> On Jul 26, 2023, at 12:00 PM, cctalk-request(a)classiccmp.org wrote:
> >>
> >> From: Chris Zach <cz(a)alembic.crystel.com <mailto:
cz(a)alembic.crystel.com
> >>
> >> Subject: [cctalk] Old Professional/350 software, any of this out
there
> >> Date: July 26, 2023 at 9:30:10 AM
CDT
> >> To: CCTalk mailing list <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org <mailto:
> cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>>
> >> Reply-To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<
> cctalk(a)classiccmp.org <mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org>>
> >>
> >>
> >> Starting to go through my boxes of POS stuff. I know of course that
3.2
> is out there (minus the Pro/Communications
option which has a bad disk
in
> the distro) however are these disks out there
now?
> >>
> >> Pro/Venix 1.0 on floppies
> >> POS V2.0a on floppies
> >>
> >> POS version 1.5 (with test diskette, maintenance application, a thing
> called Pro/Pre labelled "Diskette system", system overview and
instruction
> disks)
> >>
> >> POS V1.7 (I have that here somewhere)
> >>
> >> Pro/Basic Version 1.0 and 1.2
> >>
> >> SPSS/X For Professional (this is a really interesting one, anyone
heard
> of this?)
> >>
> >> If so let me know and I won't copy them. If not I'll go over to
the
> mighty Deskpro/XE and start sucking the data off for archives....
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >> Chris
> >> (Hoping to find old drivers or scaffolding or something that will
give
> me a hint into how DEC ported POS)
>