Mentec Hobbyist Licenses for PDP11 stuff!!!!

I have seen the licenses and from what I recall there is no connection in any manner to DECUS. I FTP'd what I think will be the final RT11 release a week or 2 ago and the person there now just needs a little time to review the contents before the release will be formally announced. He was planning to have it done by the end of January but various things came up. Thankfully none of them were as bad as what put me behind on getting them what part I did. Tim Shoppa did most of it before he changed jobs. ( I had a major fire last January that destroyed my office and storage. Added to that a divorce a few months later.) You do not want to know how much DEC stuff was destroyed in the fire - at least 3 loaded semi trailers worth. Please do not bombard them with requests yet. It will be on the web site and I will put something here when it is officially available. The RT11 release will be the first. RSX and the RSTS to follow. I need time as I need to get a VAX configured to read the images I have for those releases as they are in VMS TPC format. I have all the stuff I need but time. I want the RSX and RSTS images in the same format as the RT11 one. The RT11 images are directly readable with RSX11M+ VCP and John Wilson's PUTR. There are lot of images going back to IIRC RT11 V2B. If anyone knows the format of TPC and how it compares to RSX VCP, I would be real interested in a routine to convert them without having to write all these images out to real media and then reading them back in on an RSX box. This would get the RSX and RSTS releases out faster. All the different versions that have been located that are at least 1 release back from current are included. ( Some things are 2 releases back ) Basically I know there are no Y2K versions in the hobbyist release. Also if anyone has any original releases of RT11, RSX11, RSX11M+, RSTS please let me know what you have so I can see if I already have images. If I don't have it, I would like to get a copy so it can be included. These need to be virgin distribution images. Obviously the RT11 ones I would need VERY soon. ( meaning this week.) The RSX and RSTS in the next couple months. I can handle the images ZIPped as attachments but please not more than a few megs at a time without asking me first - I really don't want to be downloading several megs to my laptop on a slow hotel connection when I am on a service call. I can also deal with most media type if you can't make the images. I do not have everything I used to but I have replaced a lot. I and others wanted to include some of the things like Alan Baldwin's TCP stack or pointers to web sites but that is a not a possibility for various reasons. I know this will mean a lot of extra traffic here and on the PDP11 news groups. It will be a ISO9660 CD with a bunch of images in obvious directories. The only thing officially approved that is not a DEC/Mentec OS image is John Wilson's PUTR and he has graciously sent the required letter officially permitting it. Thanks Dan At 05:20 PM 2/5/2002, you wrote: