31 Mar
2000
31 Mar
'00
3:40 a.m.
I am spending all my time right now packing and
rackmounting - I have no
time to write anything. I will have some people come over and feed in the
paper tape this weekend. While I won't be able to archive most of it, I do
hope to at least read in most of the source code on paper tape. (I have over
310 PDP-1 paper tapes alone).
This program needs to be *very* easy to use and hopefully supports
X/Y-MODEM. I will set up a terminal program at this end that supports 32
character file names (windows 98). This program would have to run under
RT11-V3B, or RT11V4 BL. Hopefully it would send the code down a serial line
separate serial port.
Umm, what's wrong with Kermit? The latest Kermit for RT does just fine under
RT-11 V4, and Kermit is available for just about every other piece
of hardware ever created. See ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/
It would be really nice if this software just asked the
end user to load a
paper tape, then huit return, and it sends the data read out a separate
serial port, then prompts to load the next one.
What sort of paper tape reader are you using? If it's a serial reader,
you can hook it straight up to a PC-clone running MS-DOS and MS-Kermit
(or Linux and C-Kermit) and archive the tapes that way. Both MS-Kermit
and C-Kermit include powerful scripting languages.
Remember, you *don't* have to start from scratch, others of us have
been archiving this sort of stuff for many years.
--
Tim Shoppa Email: shoppa(a)trailing-edge.com
Trailing Edge Technology WWW: http://www.trailing-edge.com/
7328 Bradley Blvd Voice: 301-767-5917
Bethesda, MD, USA 20817 Fax: 301-767-5927