On Nov 27 2004, 23:01, Wai-Sun Chia wrote:
> Hello,
> Sorry to beat this old horse again, but did anybody set up a
> repository for M9312 boot images since the last discussion?
> (I actually went to look for them in www.classiccmp.org/M9312, and
> Pete's DECROM repository doesn't seem to have the 23-xxxA9 M9312
> roms)
>
> I need some of them, specifically the DU, DX, and DY.
Henk may have (http://www.pdp-11.nl/index.html), but maybe not online.
I have a few on a local disk. Ah, spit, that's the one that crashed a
few months ago, and I've not wired up the programmer again yet, so I
have some ROMs but not the images. The ones you want are:
23-753A9 RX01 DX Boot ROM
23-757A9 UDA50 DU Boot ROM } I'm not sure if both are
23-767A9 UDA50/RAxx DU Boot ROM } correct -- see below
23-811A9 RX02 DY Boot ROM
I have at least one of each of these, except the 23-767A9. I probably
have that number in the list because it's been listed somewhere with
that description, but since I have two 23-757A9 and no 23-767A9, I
wonder if the 767 is a typo? Or is the "DU" against 757 meant to be
"TU"?
I'll host the images if no-one already has.
> Question:
> Is the DY (supposed for RX02) able to boot RX01s too?
If you mean boot from RX01 drives, no, the bootstraps are different.
If you mean boot from an RX01 diskette in an RX02 drive, yes, it
should work, though depending on the OS, the diskette may need a DY
boot block.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
On Dec 4 2004, 0:56, Tony Duell wrote:
> I really must dig out my 11/730 and get it going. I've got the R80
drive
> and the TSU05 magtape system (this was a standard cofiguration in
> half-height rack). Of course I've also got an RL02 on one of my 11s
that
> I could hook up.
>
> What are my choices for an OS, given that I have no official license,
> live in the UK, and am not a member of DECUS (the UK chapter charges
an
> extortionate membership fee).
Run BSD, or join the US chapter of Encompass (which, at the lowest
level, is free). The latter is what I did when my UK subscription
expired, because I have more than one microVAX and I wanted at least
one running VMS. Which I will get round to doing something with "real
soon now" ;-)
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
On Friday 12/3 I will be heading down I-95 from NY to Va. to pick up a great
find...Returning Saturday (or possibly Sunday). I will have an SUV with
Trailer. If this can be of use to anyone (especially those looking to get
rid of DEC equipment to a good home <grin>) drop me a post.
Seriouly, anyone on list into DEC (especially PDP-8) who is near this route,
drop me a note....
David
david(a)dynamicconcepts.us
I received the following email. If anyone is interested please contact me
off-list. I want the chrome disk racks, so the rest is available.
Jay West
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I have the following DEC equipment available at no charge:
Computer RL-02, 2 drives (bottom one out of commission)
6 keyboards
3 LA50 printers
7 (maybe more) RL-02K disks
1 VT 100 Terminal
1 VT 102 Terminal
Cables - many
Several boards
Instruction and related books
2 chrome disk racks
Located in White Plains, NY
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It's got a blue bezel
instead of the usual orange, but it on a 19 slide enclosure. Does this make
it
an 'industrial' ?
--
Strictly speaking, the machine DEC sold as an "Industrial 8" has a
red, white, and blue front panel.
At 02:02 PM 11/19/2004 -0500, Joe R. wrote:
> Here are some pictures of SOME of the stuff that I got last weekend.
Besides a huge box of manuals that I've sent to Al, I found five BBN
computers and I'm attempting to rescue enough of one to make a workable
system for Tom Uban. Plus all the cards out of the other ones for him for
spares. The BBN chassis is just too big to deal with but I got ALL the
cables, the complete PSU (on the back panel!), the multibus card cage (and
all the MB cards) and the switch card that lets all the CPUs talk to all
the other CPUs. The BBN CPUs are odd in that they don't plug into a socket
so the card cage isn't absolutely necessary. All the power and signals go
through connectors on the front of the card. Warning: this is a SCRAP
place and some of it isn't pretty!
>
><http://www.classiccmp.org/hp/bbn/>
I designed the Multibus backplane in that BBN machine about 20 years ago.
Michael Thompson
E-Mail: M_Thompson(a)IDS.net
ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) wrote:
> What are my choices for an OS, given that I have no official license,
> live in the UK, and am not a member of DECUS (the UK chapter charges an
> extortionate membership fee).
<shameless plug>
4.3BSD-Quasijarus of course! It's completely and totally free, and unlike
some competing OSes, it's also completely and totally Classic. You can
download the distribution tape images from ifctfvax.Harhan.ORG and write
the actual tape yourself (if you have some other machine capable of writing
tapes, given all the stuff you have I'm sure you do :-), or if you want to
give some support to the project that develops and maintains the said OS,
you can order an official distribution tape from Harhan (probably still
much cheaper than any membership fee or license).
MS
