22 Apr
2011
22 Apr
'11
3:23 p.m.
On hu, 21 Apr 2011 21:33:22 -0700: "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at
aracnet.com> wrote:
At 9:13 PM -0700 4/21/11, CRC wrote:
E11 has been seriously looked at in the past, but the required additions and money
constraints nixed going in that direction. Whenever time permits he has been looking at
alternates to the current hardware. However, this system which has a rack of Fuji Eagles
and a number of tape decks, has been running without much repair maintenance for the last
several decades. We recently had to work on one of the Fujis and now are in the process of
shot-gunning all the caps. We were totally amazed when one of the drives became flakey and
found that nearly all the caps were bad - luckily Earl W. Muntz didn't work for
Fuji...
However, the current problem is not transporting the applications, but contacting the
current system. Remember that RSTS is multiuser and he has no intention of also
transporting his drones that also access the computer to the cool mountains with him :)
There are also a number of customers that dial in to get access to data.
Has anyone used any of the serial port ethernet servers (aka port directors) and how well
did they work?
-> CRC
A friend desires to leave the hot desert this
summer and move to the
cool mountain and yet maintain contact with his PDP11 with which he
still runs his business. He has a rotten phone connection, but good
internet. He runs a highly modified version of RTST 5x and cannot
reasonably move his stable 30 y/o applications to later/other OS's.
I would appreciate knowing what the listers use to accomplish same.
-> CRC
I would recommend running the E11 PDP-11 emulator on a laptop.
Though based on what you describe, I think SIMH could work just as
well. Honestly I'd recommend moving it over to an emulator anyway if
he's running his business off of it. It's one thing for those of us
here to run PDP-11 hardware of that vintage as a hobby, it's another
thing to depend on it for your livelihood. What type of drives is he
using?
The following webpage desperately needs updated, but should point you
in the right direction.
http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/pdp11emu.html